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An Absent Presence
Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960
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Caroline Chung Simpson
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
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Discusses the social and political disenfranchisement of Japanese Americans after WWII.
Author / Editor information
Caroline Chung Simpson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington.
Reviews
“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
“This impressive and well-written book presents important new historical and cultural material in an understudied period within Asian American studies.”—David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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ONE ‘‘That Faint and Elusive Insinuation’’: Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar
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TWO The Internment of Anthropology: Wartime Studies of Japanese Culture
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THREE How Rose Becomes Red: The Case of Tokyo Rose and the Postwar Beginnings of Cold War Culture
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FOUR ‘‘A Mutual Brokenness’’: The Hiroshima Maidens Project, Japanese Americans, and American Motherhood
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FIVE ‘‘Out of an Obscure Place’’: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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January 7, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822380832
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248
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Professional and scholarly;
