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In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique-of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories-Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.
In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique-of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories-Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.
Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first
nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized
process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation
of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts
and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima
memories--including history textbook controversies, discourses on
the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to
preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic
Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism, and the feminized
discourse on peace--in order to illuminate the politics of
knowledge about the past and present. In the way battles over
memories have been expressed as material struggles over the
cityscape itself, we see that not all share the dominant
remembering of Hiroshima's disaster, with its particular sense of
pastness, nostalgia, and modernity. The politics of remembering, in
Yoneyama's analysis, is constituted by multiple and contradictory
senses of time, space, and positionality, elements that have been
profoundly conditioned by late capitalism and intensifying
awareness of post-Cold War and postcolonial realities.
"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. "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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