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Author Nakamura, Jessica, author.

Title Transgenerational remembrance : performance and the Asia-Pacific war in contemporary Japan / Jessica Nakamura
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Performance works
Performance works.
Contents Ghosts of the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan -- Lingering Legacies of the War: Performance and Specters at Yasukuni Shrine -- Returning Kamikaze: Popular Culture, Affect, and Theatrical Repetition -- Staging Response-ability: Historical Omissions and the Audience -- Becoming Missing "Comfort Women": Embodiment, History, and Position -- Acts That Do Not Transfer: The Battle of Okinawa and Situated Testimony -- Making Unresolved Japanese American Histories: Transpacific Possession and Response-ability as Conflict -- Ghosts and the Future
Summary "Transgenerational Remembrance examines the legacy of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan (1931-1945) through contemporary output in theater and performance art. This book explicates art and theatrical productions dealing with kamikaze pilots, Japanese imperialism, comfort women, the Battle of Okinawa, and Japanese American internment"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2020)
Subject Theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Theater -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
Japanese drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Japanese drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
Japanese drama
Theater
War and literature
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810141315
0810141310