Cold War Ruins

Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes

Lisa Yoneyama (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6150-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Lisa Yoneyama is Professor of East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, the coeditor of Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.

Preface vii

Introduction. Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability 1

Part I. Space of Occupation

1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa 43

2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women 81

Part II. Transnational Memory Borders

3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms 111

4. Contagious Justice: Asian/America 147

5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge 177

Epilogue 203

Acknowledgments 215

Notes 225

Bibliography 285

Index 307

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	3 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6150-7 / 0822361507
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6150-3 / 9780822361503
Zustand	Neuware