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The Making of Japan-U.S. Transpacific Exceptionalism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Making of Japan-U.S. Transpacific Exceptionalism./
Author:	Abe, Kodai.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30249294
ISBN:	9798379730925

The Making of Japan-U.S. Transpacific Exceptionalism.
Abe, Kodai.

The Making of Japan-U.S. Transpacific Exceptionalism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 246 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation shows how Japan and the United States, the two competing imperial powers during the Asia Pacific War, quickly reconciled with each other during the early postwar period and how they preserved, modified, and reinforced both empires' exceptionalist ideologies, building a new interimperial hegemony across Asia and the Pacific. The American occupation forces' "demilitarize and democratize" policy soon morphed into an effort to sanction Japan to refashion and redefine its militarism, racism, and (neo)colonialism in a way that enabled these imperialist apparatuses to persist in the decolonizing Cold War world and beyond. American exceptionalism and Japanese exceptionalism, I argue, have mutually constituted and dialectically reproduced one another throughout the long Cold War era. I term this interimperial complicity "transpacific exceptionalism." Exceptionalism is a mythic belief in one's own country's unique status in the world, which is often deployed to justify violence against others under the banner of, for instance, "Manifest Destiny" or the creation of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The framework of transpacific exceptionalism enables us to address how such nationalistic myths can converge and operate complicitly in the international political arena. This dissertation tells the story of the making of Japan-U.S. transpacific exceptionalism. Exploring such cases as the comfort women issue, the two Ground Zeroes (Hiroshima and 9/11), and the creation of Japan Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Department of Defense, this dissertation reveals how entrenched Japan-U.S. transpacific exceptionalism continues to forget, revise, and reproduce its own violent histories. Through analyzing the writing, speeches, and visual art of Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Yu Miri, Nora Okja Keller, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Tomiyama Taeko, and the Godzilla film series,{A0}among others, I show how cultural works and activities can serve not only as vehicles to preserve and disseminate exceptionalist ideologies but also as contested terrain through which to critique them. Their narratives tell us counterhistories of transpacific exceptionalism.

ISBN: 9798379730925Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Comparative literature.
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