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Preface and acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: Burned-out ruins and barbed-wire fences | 1 | |
The occupation of Japan as history | 5 | |
The occupation in mainland Japanese literature and criticism | 8 | |
Okinawa: From premodern kingdom to Japanese prefecture | 12 | |
The Battle of Okinawa and the American occupation (1945-72) | 15 | |
Chapter summaries | 22 | |
1 | Roads to no-man's land | 25 |
Language, landscape, and gender in "The American School" | 30 | |
Gender, history, and the construction of victimhood in The Cocktail Party | 39 | |
Fact and fiction | 49 | |
2 | A base town in the literary imagination | 53 |
An Okinawan Boy | 56 | |
"The Town That Went Pale" | 63 | |
"Children of Mixed Blood" and the remaking of Koza | 65 | |
3 | A darker shade of difference | 70 |
Representing blacks in postwar Japan | 72 | |
Race and narrative ambivalence in "Prize Stock" | 75 | |
Reporting truth, imagining motives: "Painting on Black Canvas" | 82 | |
Poetry of protest: Arakawa Akira's "The Colored Race" | 93 | |
4 | Female floodwalls | 103 |
The Recreation and Amusement Association | 105 | |
Prostitution after the RAA | 108 | |
Prostitution and the Japanese publishing industry | 110 | |
The Chastity of Japan | 115 | |
Female Floodwall | 124 | |
5 | Ambivalent allegories | 130 |
The generational logic of "Guests From Afar" | 133 | |
Prostitution and other honest jobs: "The Only Ones" | 143 | |
Caste and outcasts: "Women of a Base Town" | 145 | |
Marriage, money, and desire in "The Women of Chitose, Hokkaido" | 149 | |
6 | The occupier within | 157 |
Reproducing the occupation: "Human Sheep" | 159 | |
Style as story: Narrative technique and memory in "American Hijiki" | 167 | |
Epilogue: Occupation literature in the post-Vietnam era | 178 | |
Okinawan literature since the Vietnam War | 178 | |
Saegusa Kazuko's A Winter's Death | 183 | |
Notes | 190 | |
English-language works cited | 222 | |
Japanese-language works cited | 229 | |
Newspaper articles | 238 | |
Index | 239 |
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