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Waiting for the cool moon : anti-imperialist struggles in the heart of Japan's empire

Matsumura, Wendy 1977- (author.).

Summary: "In Waiting for the Cool Moon, Wendy Matsumura employs works of critical Black theory, including theories of anti-Blackness, to understand the way that the Japanese empire similarly divided people into Human and less-than-human categories. The book brings into relief the forms of struggle and worlds of freedom endured by those excluded from the category of the Japanese-Human-as-Man following World War I. Even as Matsumura works to make the invisible visible, she works against reparative or redemptive desires that depend on colonial logics of recovery. Divided into four parts, the book charts the experiences and archival traces of buraku (a type of untouchable category in Japan), women, Korean workers, and imperial subjects in Okinawa and elsewhere, thinking through their lives amidst colonial violence"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781478025696
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ISBN: 1478025697
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ISBN: 9781478027829
ISBN: 1478027827
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Empire and Oikonomia -- Enclosure and the Community of the Commons -- "Buraku" Women against Tripled Sufferings -- Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household -- Inter-imperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer's Global Circuit -- Empire through the Prism of Phosphate -- Water Struggles in a Colonial City -- Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.