Waiting for the Cool Moon
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Waiting for the Cool Moon

Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Waiting for the Cool Moon

Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One. Empire and Oikonomia
  6. Chapter Two. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons
  7. Chapter Three. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings
  8. Chapter Four. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household
  9. Chapter Five. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit
  10. Chapter Six. Empire through the Prism of Phosphate
  11. Chapter Seven. Water Struggles in a Colonial City
  12. Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Untitled