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Night In The American Village

Autor Akemi Johnson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iun 2019
A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book.
--Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead

A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there

At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades--with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s.

But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the border towns surrounding the bases--a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex-U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II.

Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.

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ISBN-13: 9781620973318
ISBN-10: 1620973316
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 145 x 225 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: The New Press
Colecția The New Press
Locul publicării:United States

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A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. base in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there.