Akiko Hashimoto, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
How do memories of national trauma remain relevant to culture and society long after the event? Why do the memories of difficult experiences endure, and even intensify, despite people’s impulse to avoid remembering a dreadful past and to move on? This book explores these questions by examining Japan’s culture of defeat up to the present day. It surveys the stakes of war memory in Japan after its defeat in World War II and shows how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life, especially in recent decades. Drawing on ethnographic observations and personal interviews as well as testimonials and other popular memory data since the 1980s, it probes into the heart of the divisive war memories that lie at the root of current disputes over revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, remilitarization, and the escalating frictions in East Asia that have come to be known collectively as Japan’s “history problem.” This book examines this divisive national project, drawing on the sociological insights of cultural trauma theory and collective memory theory. Contrary to the Western stereotype that describes Japan as suffering from “collective amnesia,” Japan’s war memories are deeply encoded in the everyday culture and much more varied than the caricatured image suggests. The book identifies three conflicting trauma narratives in Japan’s war memories—narratives of victims, perpetrators, and fallen heroes—that are motivated by the desire to heal the wounds, redress the wrongs, and restore a positive moral and national identity.
發表於2024-12-27
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看完這本《漫長的戰敗》接著看《日本之鏡》,日本人對“義理”的執著和對暴力的極度崇拜是他們發起二次大戰的原因;而“忍”文化也是天皇為何能在投降的第一刻嚮麥剋阿瑟卸下自己的“神聖”。他們的矛盾是激烈的,不僅在普通人身上還是在政客之中,三種戰敗後的理念,陣亡英雄...
評分看完這本《漫長的戰敗》接著看《日本之鏡》,日本人對“義理”的執著和對暴力的極度崇拜是他們發起二次大戰的原因;而“忍”文化也是天皇為何能在投降的第一刻嚮麥剋阿瑟卸下自己的“神聖”。他們的矛盾是激烈的,不僅在普通人身上還是在政客之中,三種戰敗後的理念,陣亡英雄...
評分看完這本《漫長的戰敗》接著看《日本之鏡》,日本人對“義理”的執著和對暴力的極度崇拜是他們發起二次大戰的原因;而“忍”文化也是天皇為何能在投降的第一刻嚮麥剋阿瑟卸下自己的“神聖”。他們的矛盾是激烈的,不僅在普通人身上還是在政客之中,三種戰敗後的理念,陣亡英雄...
評分看完這本《漫長的戰敗》接著看《日本之鏡》,日本人對“義理”的執著和對暴力的極度崇拜是他們發起二次大戰的原因;而“忍”文化也是天皇為何能在投降的第一刻嚮麥剋阿瑟卸下自己的“神聖”。他們的矛盾是激烈的,不僅在普通人身上還是在政客之中,三種戰敗後的理念,陣亡英雄...
評分看完這本《漫長的戰敗》接著看《日本之鏡》,日本人對“義理”的執著和對暴力的極度崇拜是他們發起二次大戰的原因;而“忍”文化也是天皇為何能在投降的第一刻嚮麥剋阿瑟卸下自己的“神聖”。他們的矛盾是激烈的,不僅在普通人身上還是在政客之中,三種戰敗後的理念,陣亡英雄...
圖書標籤: 日本史 日本 曆史 二戰史 Japanese_studies 社會學 政治學 戰爭史
感覺是寫給令和一代的書。日本人糾結的戰爭記憶終究會過去。(我依然保留我認為戰後日本欠“去殖民化”的觀點)
評分這本書15年就齣現在我的想讀裏麵,想不到開捲的契機卻是在日譯中譯都齣版後,作為Kurtz的課程reading...若是四年前讀,因為對材料方法都不熟悉,多半會嘖嘖稱奇但卻不得要領;如今讀,明白是老生常談,也能挑毛病,也更能欣賞,明白寫到這樣深入淺齣是真的見功力。
評分寫的很穩(相對來說也很大膽,尤其政治錶演一塊)涵括瞭很多微妙的論點。從後記憶和代際關係入手,側重二戰戰後的日本民間記憶,立場很堅定-在呈現多元記憶的同時,反抗對於二戰中“惡”的轉移和消弭。裏麵記錄的一些日本後記憶承載者的反應竟有點鳴閤Butler援引Einstein的militant pacifism. 作者對於self-defense的討論也是(同時看的兩本書dialogize)。對於Primo Levi gray zone的轉用還挺有趣的,因為年輕一代日本人有些對戰爭持冷淡和迴避態度,所以首先要解構好壞對立,讓他們理解這種perpetratorhood-cum-victimhood. Traumatic pasts的pedagogical value是本書重點。
評分confrontation between the generation of perpetrators and the postwar generation. competing memories of the traumatic past. 不同的敘事,不同的曆史記憶
評分confrontation between the generation of perpetrators and the postwar generation. competing memories of the traumatic past. 不同的敘事,不同的曆史記憶
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