Author: Louise Borden
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618339228
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.
Author: Robert Dixon
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1920899669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia. In the 21st century, both American and Australian literatures are experiencing new challenges to the very different paradigms of literary history and criticism each inherited from the 20th century. In response to these challenges, scholars of both literatures are seizing the opportunity to reassess and reconfigure the conceptual geography of national literary spaces as they are reformed by vectors that evade or exceed them, including the transnational, the local and the global. The essays in Reading Across the Pacific are divided into five sections: 'National literatures and transnationalism', 'Poetry and poetics', 'Literature and popular culture', 'The Cold War', and 'Publishing history and transpacific print cultures'.
Author: John Dower
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307816141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Author: Kenichi Horie
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462913342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Kodoku is the true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey. First described in a best-selling Japanese book, then an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Kodoku is the full record of the background, conception, preparation, and execution of this daring, yet carefully planned adventure. It includes not only the full text of his original log, but also his supplementary comments, adding detail and highlight to the day-to-day experiences recorded in the log. Also included are charts, plans, and a diagram comparing some of the more noteworthy craft that sailed the open seas in the past. The 61 photographs, including 43 taken by Horie himself during the trip, add a vivid touch to this fascinating story of courage, tenacity, adventure, and humor.
Author: Toshi Yoshihara
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591149798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
Author: Professor Robert Dixon
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1743320930
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia.
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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This account begins with the devastation of Pearl Harbor and ends with the victory over Japan in 1945.
Author: Webb Chiles
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393032680
Category : Pacific Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: R.B. Kaplan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402010620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.
Author: Unesco. Pacific States Office
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201552
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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