From confinement to containment : Japanese/American arts during the early Cold War / Edward Tang

Author: Tang, Edward
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
Physical Description: xiii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Asian American history and culture

Contents

Reorienting Empires : Hanama Tasaki's War Guilt and U.S.-Japan Relations -- Sleeping with the Frenemy: Yamaguchi Yoshiko as Japanese War Bride -- Beyond Confinement: The Racialized Cosmopolitan Style of Henry Sugimoto -- Teach Your Children Well: The Postwar Tales of Yoshiko Uchida.

Summary

"From Confinement to Containment examines four Japanese and Japanese American artists--the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children's author Yoshiko Uchida--whose lives and work explored overlapping transpacific legacies of immigration, imperialism, confinement, and global conflict in U.S.-Japan relations"--

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History

ISBN

9781439917480 (hardback : alk. paper)
1439917485
9781439917497 (paper : alk. paper)
1439917493

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index.

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