Cold War Ruins : Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes (9780822361695)

In Cold War Ruins 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." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique-of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories-Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 20.32mm | 454g
• Publication date 08 Sep 2016
• Publisher Duke University Press
• Publication City/Country North Carolina, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 3 illustrations
• ISBN10 0822361698
• ISBN13 9780822361695
• Bestsellers rank 628,567

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