Confronting Memories of World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Memories of World War II write by Daniel Chirot. This book was released on 2014. Confronting Memories of World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection brings together experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to explore the often overlooked commonalities between European and Asian handling of memories and reflections about guilt. These commonalities suggest new understandings of the war's legacy and the continuing impact of historical trauma.
Confronting Memories of World War II
Confronting Memories of World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Memories of World War II write by Daniel Chirot. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Confronting Memories of World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized, reinterpreted, and used. By directly comparing European and Asian legacies, Confronting Memories of World War II, provides unique insight into the way that World War II continues to influence contemporary attitudes and politics on a global scale. The collection brings together experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to explore the often overlooked commonalities between European and Asian handling of memories and reflections about guilt. These commonalities suggest new understandings of the war's legacy and the continuing impact of historical trauma.
Bodies of Memory
Bodies of Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies of Memory write by Yoshikuni Igarashi. This book was released on 2012-01-09. Bodies of Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.
History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia
History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia write by Gi-Wook Shin. This book was released on 2011-02-08. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian societies (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) and the United States focusing on the period from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war in 1931 until the formal conclusion of the Pacific War with the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. The contributors analyse the recent efforts of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese scholars to write a ‘common history’ of Northeast Asia and question the underlying motivations for their efforts and subsequent achievements. In doing so, they contend that the greatest obstacle to reconciliation in Northeast Asia lies in the existence of divided, and often conflicting, historical memories. The book argues that a more fruitful approach lies in understanding how historical memory has evolved in each country and been incorporated into respective master narratives. Through uncovering the existence of different master narratives, it is hoped, citizens will develop a more self-critical, self-reflective approach to their own history and that such an introspective effort has the potential to lay the foundation for greater self- and mutual understanding and eventual historical reconciliation in the region. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Asian history, Asian education and international relations in East Asia.
Kinder Memories of World War II
Kinder Memories of World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kinder Memories of World War II write by Ursula Beiler Hennessy. This book was released on 2007-04. Kinder Memories of World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Depicts the life of the author as a child in Heidelberg, Germany, during the Second World War and the times right thereafter during the occupation by the Americans.
