{"product_id":"perilous-memories-9780822325642","title":"Perilous Memories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirmly based on the insight that memory is always mediated and that the past is not a stable object, this title demonstrates that we can intervene positively yet critically in the recovery and reinterpretation of events and experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePerilous Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is a major statement in current discussions concerned with assessing the problematic relationship of history and memory. The authors gathered in this volume edited by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey White, and Lisa Yoneyama forcefully rescue the memories of other wars and genocides in the arena of Asia-Pacific to remind us of the dangerous but necessary task of the present to actualize the past in order to remember the forgotten yet unforgettable. With this volume we have an incomparable guide to what Walter Benjamin once described as the ‘copernican turn to remembrance.’”—Harry Harootunian, New York University\u003cbr\u003e“This excellent interdisciplinary collection of essays gives diverse and heterogeneous voice to many ordinary people who suffered in the Asian wars that began in 1931—wars that, for many of these same people, never really ended. At every turn, \u003ci\u003ePerilous Memories\u003c\/i\u003e counterpoints the extraordinary elites who have dominated historical memory with the recuperated experience of their victims. This book is a major contribution to what the authors call ‘critical war remembering.’”—Bruce Cumings, author of \u003ci\u003eParallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unsettling official national accounts with memories of war from Okinawa, Guam, and Taiwan, of the Nanjing massacre, occupied Singapore, and the Hiroshima bombing—\u003ci\u003ePERILOUS MEMORIES\u003c\/i\u003e provokes a haunting dialectic between familiar history and endangered memories.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Memory Fragments, Memory Images \u003cbr\u003e Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment \/ Marita Sturken 33\u003cbr\u003e The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan \/ Daqing Yang 50\u003cbr\u003e Memories of War and Okinawa \/ Ishihara Masaie 87\u003cbr\u003e Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs \/ Lamont Lindstrom 107\u003cbr\u003e Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 \/ Morio Watanabe 129\u003cbr\u003e 2. Politics and Poetics of Liberation \u003cbr\u003e Deliberating “Liberation Day”: Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam \/ Vicente M. Diaz 155\u003cbr\u003e Imperial Army Betrayed \/ Chen Yingzhen 181\u003cbr\u003e Korean “Imperial Soldiers”: Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs \/ Utsumi Aiko 199\u003cbr\u003e Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore \/ Diana Wong 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGo For Broke\u003c\/i\u003e, the Movie, Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses \/ T. Fujitani 239\u003cbr\u003e Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) \/ Geoffrey M. White 267\u003cbr\u003e 3. Atonement, Healing, and Unexpected Alliances \u003cbr\u003e “Trapped in History” on the Way to Utopia: East Asia’s “Great War” Fifty Years Later \/ Arif Dirlik 299\u003cbr\u003e For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian \u003ci\u003eEnola Gay\u003c\/i\u003e Controversy \/ Lisa Yoneyama 323\u003cbr\u003e “Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army”: Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia Pacific War \/ George Lipsitz 347\u003cbr\u003e Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea \/ Toyonaga Keisaburo 378\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of War Memories toward Healing \/ Chungmoo Choi 395\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 411\u003cbr\u003e Filmography 435\u003cbr\u003e Index 437\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 461","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406025957719,"sku":"9780822325642","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325642.jpg?v=1730494287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perilous-memories-9780822325642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}