Alegal Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United Stat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shimabuku, Annmaria M., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press [2018]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Fordham scholarship online.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Translations and Romanizations
  • List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims
  • 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming
  • 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness
  • 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks
  • 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index