xix, 406 sider : illustrasjoner

Basert på forfatterens doktoravhandling: Subaltern speak : imperial multiplicities in Japan's empire and post-war colonialisms (Ph. D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011).. - Part I. Boundaries of late Meiji colonial subjecthood: Colonial reality and subaltern subjectivity -- Meeting the man on the other side -- The paupers' grave at Margravine Cemetery -- Welcome to the empire -- Part II. Journeys between the metropole and the colonies: The taming of the barbarian and other savage love stories -- Two coconuts and a bonito stick -- Part III. Performing and living racial-alities: Creating space, dividing barriers -- A mountain of bones.. - "Examines material objects, visual imagery, and oral histories to help reconstruct the lives and movements of the four least examined groups of Japan's colonial subjects--the Ainu, Taiwan's indigenous people, Micronesians, and Okinawans--conveying the dynamic nature of an empire in motion and explaining how individuals navigated the variances of imperial life"--Fra forlaget

Japan - Asia - Colonies . - Japan - Foreign relations . - Hokkaidô : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01944. - Japan : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01941. - Mikronesia : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03728. - Ryukyuøyene : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01946. - Taiwan : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02093

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