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Author:

Barshay, Andrew E.

Title:

The gods left first : the captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 / Andrew E. Barshay.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Japanese--Siberia--Siberia--History--20th century.
Concentration camps--Siberia--Siberia--History--20th century.
Japanese--Siberia--Siberia--Biography.
Concentration camp inmates--Siberia--Siberia--Biography.
Japanese--East Asia--History--20th century.
Repatriation--Japan--History--20th century.
Imperialism--History--East Asia--History--20th century.
Manchuria (China)--History--History--20th century.
Korea--History--History--20th century.
Japan--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I. Prologue -- The Gods Left First -- Sources and Method -- II. The Siberian Internment in History -- The Prince's Tale -- The Soviet-Japanese War -- Hot War to Cold -- The Soviet-Japanese Conflict : Prehistory into History -- Toward Internment -- The Internment Remembered -- III. Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag -- Icons of the Profane -- The Red Corpse -- "My Vision Broadened Tenfold" -- The "Siberia Style" -- From Image to Text -- The Responsibility of the Artist -- "The Beauty only I Can Grasp" -- IV. Knowledge Painfully Acquired : Takasugi Ichirō and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia -- Thank You, Iosif Vissarionovich! -- A Humanist Interprets the Gulag -- Siberia, School of Democracy -- Ogawa Gorō Becomes Takasugi Ichirō -- In the Shadow of the Northern Lights -- The Gate of Hell -- Toward Epiphany -- Toward Return -- Knowledge Painfully Acquired -- V. Ishihara Yoshirō : "My Best Self Did Not Return" -- Prologue: Ishihara Yoshirō and Viktor Frankl -- The Survivor's Question -- The Primitive Accumulation of Memory -- The Life before the Death -- Into the Gulag -- At Lowest Ebb, Stirrings -- Kano Buichi, Enigma -- Was this Domoi? -- VI. Coda -- The People Stalin Didn't Care About -- "A War to Live" : Fujiwara Tei's The Shooting Stars Are Alive -- The Meaning and Message of Survival -- Appendix: How Many?

ISBN:

0520276159 (alk. paper)
9780520276154 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)833146367

LCCN:

2013008849

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)