Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Blackburn, Kevin; Hack, Karl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using archival, oral and literary sources, Blackburn and Hack, along with an impressive team of international contributors, rectify the obscured picture of the Japanese captive by bringing together, for the first time, a collection of essays covering an extremely broad range of forgotten captives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134092222
• Artikelnr.: 38460749

Autorenporträt

Karl Hack is Lecturer in History at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England. Kevin Blackburn is Associate Professor in History, Humanities and Social Studies Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Background 1. Captivities in the East: Contrasting
Experiences, Contrasting Narratives Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn Part 2:
National Memories 2. Memory and the POW Experience: The United Kingdom
Sibylla Jane Flower 3. Beyond Slogans: Assessing the Experiences and the
History of Australian Prisoners of War of the Japanese Hank Nelson 4.
Monument and Ceremony: The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial and the
Incorporation of Prisoners of War in ANZAC Lachlan Grant 5. Americans under
Nippon Scott Corbett 6. Canadian Experience of the Pacific War: Betrayal
and Captivity Gregory Johnson 7. Dutch Experiences in Japanese Captivity
Remco Raben and Peter Keppy Part 3: Forgotten Captivities, Contrasting
Narratives 8. Remembering War and Forgetting Civilians: The Ambiguous
Position of Civilian Internees in Commemorations of the Pacific War
Christina Twomey 9. Dutch Civilians in Indonesia, 1942-1945: Crime and
Authority in Japanese Camps Jacco van den Heuvel 10. Dutch Evacuees in
Thailand, 1946: Waiting to Go Home Arno Ooms 11. Japanese Guards in Film
and Memory: 'White Skin, Yellow Commander' Kaori Maekawa 12. Women and
Children Internees: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences by Gender and
Youth Bernice Archer 13. Hide and Seek: Children of Japanese Fathers and
Indies European Mothers Eveline Buchheim 14. The Colonial Subject as Heroic
Captive: Sybil Kathigasu and Elizabeth Choy in Biography and Autobiography
Lim Pui Huen 15. A World Wide Myth: Ian Watt and the Myth of the Bridge
over the River Kwai Roger Bourke 16. The Men Who Never Were: Indian POWs in
the Pacific 1941-1945 Gerry Douds