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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Setting the stage for the yakeato generation
• 1. Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: the yakeato (the burnt-out ruins) generation / Roman Rosenbaum
• 2. Nihon ni okeru kyo no sengoron: current post-war discourse in Japan / Suzuki Sadami
• pt. II Pre-yakeato: provenance of a generation to come
• 3. Ohara Tomie and A Woman Called En / Hiroko Kobayashi
• 4. legacy of Watanabe Kazuo (1901
• 1975) / Yasuko Claremont
• pt. III yakeato cohort: offspring of war
• 5. legacy of the yakeato generation: Oda Makoto's literary social criticism / Roman Rosenbaum
• 6. yakeato poet: Irisawa Yasuo / Yasuko Claremont
• 7. Ariyoshi Sawako and Sono Ayako: young women writers of the yakeato generation / Barbara Hartley
• pt. IV Post-yakeato: the heritage of a generation
• 8. Graphic depictions of the Asia-Pacific War / Roman Rosenbaum
• 9. Laughter and tears: the complex narrative of Nosaka Akiyuki's Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) / Hiroko Cockerill
• 10. Japanese poetry and the legacies of war / Leith Morton
• 11. Language and body: Betsuyaku Minoru and the S̀mall Theatre movement' (Shogekijo undo) in the 1960s / Masahito Takayashiki
• 12. Kuroki Kazuo's requiem for war / Carol Hayes
• 13. Architecture in the Mono-no-nai-jidai / Peter Armstrong
• 14. Summation: children of war / Yasuko Claremont.

Contributors:

Rosenbaum, Roman

Claremont, Yasuko, 1944-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Routledge contemporary Japan series; v. 31

Subjects:

Japan — Social conditions — 1945-

World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Japan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HN723.5 .L447 2011

ISBNs:

0203846710 (electronic bk.)
9780203846711 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

810933082

Other Control Numbers:

482586 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9737204