Description
Book SynopsisThe first study to focus on how popular representations of the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II affected the formation of Cold War culture
Trade Review“
An Absent Presence is an ambitious, nuanced, and far-reaching analysis of a critical topic that adds much to our understanding of American history and in particular the central role Asian Americans have played in it.”—David Palumbo-Liu, author of
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier“This impressive and well-written book presents important new historical and cultural material in an understudied period within Asian American studies.”—David Eng, author of
Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. “That Faint and Elusive Insinuation”: Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar
2. The Internment of Anthropology: Wartime Studies of Japanese Culture
3. How Rose Becomes Red: The Case of Tokyo Rose and the Postwar Beginnings of Cold War Culture
4. “A Mutual Brokenness”: The Hiroshima Maidens Project, Japanese Americans, and American Motherhood
5. “Out of an Obscure Place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
