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Preface. Introduction: Burned-Out Ruins and Barbed-Wire Fences. The Occupation of Japan as History. The Occupation in Mainland Japanese Literature and Criticism. Okinawa: From Premodern Kingdom to Japanese Prefecture. The Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation (1945-1972). Chapter Summaries. Notes Chapter One: Roads to No-Man's Land. Language,Landscape and Gender in "The American School". Gender, History and the Construction of Victimhood in The Cocktail Party. Fact and Fiction. Notes Chapter Two: A Base Town In The Literary Imagination. An Okinawan Boy. "The Town That Went Pale". "Children of Mixed Blood" and the Remaking of Koza. Notes Chapter Three: A Darker Shade of Difference. Representing Blacks in Postwar Japan. Race and Narrative Ambivalance in "Prize Stock". Reporting Truth, Imagining Motives: "Painting on Black Canvas". Poetry of Protest: Arakawa Akira's "The Coloured Race". Notes Chapter Four: Female Floodwalls. The Recreation and Amusement Association. Prostitution After the RAA. Prostitution and the Japanese Publishing Industry. The Chastity of Japan. Female Floodwall. Notes Chapter Five: Ambivalent Allegories. The Generational Logic of "Guests From Afar". Prostitution and Other Honest Jobs: "The Only Ones". Caste and Outcasts: "Women of a Base Town". Marriage, Money and Desire: "The Women of Chitose, Hokkaido". Notes Chapter Six: The Occupier Within. Reproducing The Occupation: "Human Sheep". Style as Story: Narrative Technique and Memory in "American Hijiki". Notes Epilogue: Occupation Literature in the Post-Vietnam Era. Okinawan Literature Since the Vietnam War. Saegusa Kazuko's A Winter's Death. Notes. |
