Caroline Chung Simpson

An Absent Presence

Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

""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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327462
• ISBN-10: 0822327465
• Artikelnr.: 22140947

Autorenporträt

Caroline Chung Simpson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> 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