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Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire

Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire

Matsumura, Wendy

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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesJapanese History

ISBN10: 1478025697
ISBN13: 9781478025696
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation. She critiques Japan studies' role in this effacement and contends that the field must engage with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity as the grounds on which to understand imperialism, colonialism, fascism, and other forces that shape national consciousness. Drawing on Black radical thinkers' critique of the erasure of the Middle Passage in universalizing theories of modernity's imbrication with fascism, Matsumura traces the consequences of the Japanese empire's categorization of people as human and less-than-human as manifested in the 1920s and 1930s, and the struggles of racialized and colonized people against imperialist violence. She treats the archives safeguarded by racialized, colonized women throughout the empire as traces of these struggles, including the work they performed to keep certain stories out of view. Matsumura demonstrates that tracing colonial sensibility and struggle is central to grappling with their enduring consequences for the present.

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