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Author Shimabuku, Annmaria M., editor.

Title Alegal : biopolitics and the unintelligibility of Okinawan life / Annmaria M. Shimabuku.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2018).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Japan in the 1950s : symbolic victims -- Okinawa, 1945-1952 : allegories of becoming -- Okinawa, 1952-1958 : solidarity under the cover of darkness -- Okinawa, 1958-1972 : the subaltern speaks -- Okinawa, 1972-1995 : life that matters.
Summary "Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Miscegenation -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi -- History -- 20th century.
Military bases, American -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken.
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Biopolitics -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi.
Okinawa-shi (Japan) -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Biopolitics. (OCoLC)fst00832668
Military bases, American -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01021038
Miscegenation. (OCoLC)fst01023613
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior. (OCoLC)fst01125307
Japan -- Okinawa-ken. (OCoLC)fst01207860
Japan -- Okinawa-shi. (OCoLC)fst01205101
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780823282685 (electronic book)
0823282686 (electronic book)
9780823282661
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