"Perilous Memories" makes a groundbreaking and critical
intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia-Pacific
region. Arguing that much is lost or erased when the Asia-Pacific
War(s) are reduced to the 1941-1945 war between Japan and the
United States, this collection challenges mainstream memories of
the Second World War in favor of what were actually multiple,
widespread conflicts. The contributors recuperate marginalized or
silenced memories of wars throughout the region--not only in Japan
and the United States but also in China, Southeast Asia, the
Pacific Islands, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Korea.
Firmly based on the insight that memory is always mediated and
that the past is not a stable object, the volume demonstrates that
we can intervene positively yet critically in the recovery and
reinterpretation of events and experiences that have been pushed to
the peripheries of the past. The contributors--an international
list of anthropologists, cultural critics, historians, literary
scholars, and activists--show how both dominant and subjugated
memories have emerged out of entanglements with such forces as
nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, racism, and sexism. They
consider both "how" the past is remembered and also what the
consequences may be of privileging one set of memories over others.
Specific objects of study range from photographs, animation, songs,
and films to military occupations and attacks, minorities in
wartime, "comfort women," commemorative events, and postwar
activism in pursuing redress and reparations.
"Perilous Memories" is a model for war memory intervention and
will be of interest to historians and other scholars and activists
engaged with collective memory, colonial studies, U.S. and Asian
history, and cultural studies.
"Contributors." Chen Yingzhen, Chungmoo Choi, Vicente M. Diaz,
Arif Dirlik, T. Fujitani, Ishihara Masaie, Lamont Lindstrom, George
Lipsitz, Marita Sturken, Toyonaga Keisaburo, Utsumi Aiko, Morio
Watanabe, Geoffrey M. White, Diana Wong, Daqing Yang, Lisa
Yoneyama
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