2006
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Some 15 years in the making, Orbaugh's (Asian studies and women's studies, U. of British Columbia) study explores how Japanese writers of fiction working during the Allied Occupation (1945-1952) contributed to the postwar discourses of racial, national, and linguistic identity, as influenced by the historical circumstances of war, defeat, privation, and occupation by a foreign power. The texts examined include prewar and wartime materials—films, fiction, posters, kamishibai plays, advertisements—and Occupation- period fictional works, several of which do not yet exist in English. The author suggests that the presence of Occupation forces acted as a mirror in which previously obstructed elements of Japanese racial and cultural identity became visible, and were then incorporated into the efforts of writers—and their readers—to use narrative in reorienting themselves to the drastically changed social and political environment. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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