Adrienne Carey Hurley

Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures

Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing fictional narratives, media accounts, and specific cases of child abuse and youth violence, this work suggests that Japan and the United States both foster a "culture of child abuse" in which the state's relationship to its youth

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349426
• ISBN-10: 0822349426
• Artikelnr.: 33396303

Autorenporträt

Adrienne Carey Hurley is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1
"Livid with History": An Introduction to Part 1 19
1. Survivor Discourse, the Limits of Objectivity, and Orpha 30
2. Shizuko, the Silent Girl: Uchida Shungiku's Fazaa Fakkaa 46
3. "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean": Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of
Carolina 75
Part 2
The Message: An Introduction to Part 2 107
4. Engendering First World Fears: The Teenager and the Terrorist 122
5. "Killer Kids" and "Cutters" 148
6. The Fiction of Hoshino Tomoyuki and Japanarchy 2K: Lonely Hearts
Revolution 177
Conclusion. A Case for Reparations 215
Appendix 223
Notes 225
Bibliography 247
Index 253