Epitaphs to Empire: On Abe Kōbō and the (Un)Making of the Repatriation Narrative

This article considers some of the dynamics of movement and non-movement in the context of East Asia through an examination of the repatriation narrative. By “repatriation narrative,” I refer to a postwar Japanese form of testimonial interlocution which features a first-person returnee narrator/aut...

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