Cold War Ruins

Klappentext Lisa Yoneyama is Professor of East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto! the coeditor of Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)! also published by Duke University Press! and the author of Hiroshima Traces: Time! Space! and the Dialectics of Memory. Zusammenfassung Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism! militarized security! justice! sovereignty! forgiveness! and decolonization.

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Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.

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Preface vii

Introduction. Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability 1

Part I. Space of Occupation

1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa 43

2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women 81

   Part II. Transnational Memory Borders

3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms 111

4. Contagious Justice: Asian/America 147

5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge 177

   Epilogue 203

   Acknowledgments 215

   Notes 225

   Bibliography 285

   Index 307