The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan   after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this   latest volume in Brill's monograph series Japanese Studies Library.  Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied   Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins with an examination of the rhetoric of   wartime propaganda, and explores how elements of that rhetoric were   redeployed postwar as authors produced fiction linked to the redefinition   of what it means to be Japanese. Drawing on tools and methods from trauma   studies, gender and race studies, and film and literary theory, the study   traces important nodes in the construction and maintenance of discourses of   identity through attention to writers' representations of the gaze, the   body, language, and social performance.   This book will be of interest to any student of the literary or cultural   history of World War II and its aftermath.

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