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Author Abel, Jonathan E., 1971-

Title Redacted : the archives of censorship in transwar Japan / Jonathan E. Abel
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 355 pages)
Series Asia Pacific modern ; 11
Asia Pacific modern ; 11.
Contents Introduction: archiving censors -- Preservation. The censor's archives and beyond -- Indices of censorship -- Essaying the censors -- Production. Seditious obscenities -- Literary casualties of war -- Redaction. Epigraphs -- Redactionary literature -- Beyond X -- Unnaming and the language of slaves -- Redaction countertime
Summary This study examines the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the dark valley attributed to wartime culture and to cast a shadow on the supposedly bright, open space of free postwar discourse
Notes "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-344) and index
Notes English
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Subject Censorship -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Japanese literature -- Censorship -- History -- 20th century
Expurgated books -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Prohibited books -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Censorship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Censorship
Expurgated books
Japanese literature -- Censorship
Prohibited books
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021693494
ISBN 9780520953406
0520953401
1283584123
9781283584128
9786613896575
6613896578