Writing war soldiers record the Japanese Empire
Introduction: World War, diary writing, and the self -- Talk about heroes: military diaries in the modern world -- Self-mobilization and the discipline of the battlefield: the battle for Shanghai and northern China -- Assembling the "new order": reconstitution of self through diary writing...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: World War, diary writing, and the self -- Talk about heroes: military diaries in the modern world -- Self-mobilization and the discipline of the battlefield: the battle for Shanghai and northern China -- Assembling the "new order": reconstitution of self through diary writing -- The unbearable likeness of being: the transnational phenomenon of self-discipline during the Pacific War -- The physics of writing war: recording the destruction of the Japanese Empire -- The consequences of self-discipline: postwar historical memory and veterans' narratives -- Conclusion: the peril of self-discipline. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VI, 378 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780674059061 978-0-674-05906-1 |