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Director: Japanese Studies Program
Lisa Yoneyama received her B.A. in German Language Studies and M.A. in International Relations at Jochi University in Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. She has been a member of the Department since 1992 and teaches Cultural Studies, U.S.-Japan Studies, Asian American Studies, and Critical Gender Studies. Her research interests center on the history and memory of war and colonialism, gender and militarism, and the cultural dimensions of transnationalism, neo-colonialism, and the Cold War and post-Cold War U.S. relations with Asia.
Yoneyama's first book Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory (University of California, 1999) examined the politics of remembering and forgetting the Japanese history of colonialism, the Asia-Pacific War and the atomic destruction of Hiroshima through exploring various cultural products and texts. These include the examination of city space, nuclear ruins, survivors’ testimonials, and ethnic, colonial and gendered narratives around various memorial icons, including the Korean victims’ monument. Hiroshima Traces was translated and published in Japanese: Hiroshima kioku no poritikusu, Ozawa Hiroaki, et. Al., trans. (Iwanimi Shoten, 2005).
Yoneyama's second single-authored book, Violence, War, Redress: The Politics of Multiculturalism (Boryoku senso, ridoresu: tabunkashugi no poritikusu) was published in Japanese from Iwanami Shoten, 2003. It includes a number of essays on multiculturalism, feminism, cultural studies, neo-nationalism and the conflicts over historical memories in the global culture wars.
Yoneyama also co-edited Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001).
She is currently working on a third book project, tentative titled, Cold War Ruins: Feminism, Colonialism, and the Americanization of Historical Justice, in which she critically explores Cold War management of knowledge and the questions of justice, feminism, anti-colonialism, and the location of Asian America.
Yoneyama was born in the U. S. and received most of her education in Kyoto, Japan.SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and The Dialectics of Memory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
"Remembering and Imagining the Nuclear Annihilation in Hiroshima." The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter. vol.7, no.2 (2002).
Violence, War, Redress: The Politics of Multiculturalism. (published in Japanese from Iwanami Shoten, 2003).
"On the Unredressability of U.S. War Crimes: Vietnam and Japan." Amerasia Journal. vol.31, no.2 (2005):140-44.
"Liberation under Siege: U.S. Military Occupation and Japanese Women’s Enfranchisement." American Quarterly. vol.57, no.3 (September 2005): 885-910
"The Occupation of Japan from a Critical Feminism Perspective: Media representation of Japanese Women in the U.S. Myth of ‘Liberation and Rehabilitation’" [Hihanteki feminizumu no keifu kara miru Nihon senryo: Nihon josei no media hyosho to ‘kaiho to rehabiri’ no Beikoku shinwa]. Shiso no.955 (November 2003): 60-84.
"Traveling Memories, Contagious Justice: Americanization of Japanese War Crimes at the End of the Post-Cold War," Journal of Asian American Studies.
"NHK’s Censorship of Japanese Crimes Against Humanity" Harvard Asia Quarterly, vol. VI, no.1 (Winter 2002): 15-19.
"Reading Against the Bourgeois and National Bodies: Transcultural Body-Politics in Yu Miri’s Textual Representations." In Sonia Ryang, ed., Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. London: Routledge (1999) pp.103-118.
"Habits of Knowing Cultural Differences: Chrysanthemum and the Sword in the U.S. Liberal Multiculturalism." Topoi 18 (1999): 71-80.
"Critical Warps: Facticity, Transformative Knowledge, and Postnationalist Criticism in the Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy." positions: east asia cultures critiques 5:3 (Winter 1997): 779-809.
"Memory Matters: Hiroshima’s Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity." Public Culture 7 (Spring 1995): 499-527.
"Taming the Memoryscape: Hiroshima’s Urban Renewal." In Jonathan Boyarin, ed., Remapping Memory: The Politics of Timespace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 99-135.
"Leisure, Humor, Modernity: The Laughter and Violence of the "Modern Manzai" [Goraku, yumoa, kindai: "modan manzai" no warai to boryoku"]. In Shunya Yoshimi, et. Al., ed., Iwanami Lecture Series: Cultural History of Modern Japan [Iwanami koza: kindai nihon no bunkashi], vol.6, "Expanding Modernities, 1920s-30s" [Kakudai suru modaniti, 1920s-1930s], pp. 147-181.
"Hihanteki feminizumu to Nihongun seidoreisei: Ajia/amerika kara miru josei no jinken rejimu no kansei {Critical Feminism and Japan’s Military Sex Slavery: Asian/America and Critique of the Women’s Human Rights Regime]." In Kim Puja and Nakano Toshio, eds., Rekishi to sekinin: "Ianfu" modai to 1990 nendai [History and Accountability: "Comfort Women" Issues and the 1990s]. Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2008, pp. 234-49. Translated and published in Korean as "pip’anjok p’eminijum kwa Ilbon’gun songno yeje," in Kim Puja and Nakano Toshio, eds., Yoska wa ch’aegim (Seoul: Sunin [Sonin], 2008).
"Nihon shokuminchishugi no rekishi kioku to Amerika: Yoko monogatari o megutte [Historical memory of Japanese Colonialism and the United States: On So Far From the Bamboo Grove." In Komori Yoichi, et. Al, eds., Higashi Ajia rekishi ninshiki ronso no metahisutori: Kannechi, rentai 21 no kokoromi [Metahistory of East Asian Historical Debate]. Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2008, pp. 267-284.Translated and published in Korea as "Ilbon singminjijuui ui yoksa kiok kwa Asiakye Mikugin," in Han’il Yondae 21, ed., Han’il yoksa insik nonjaeng ui met’ahisut’ori )Seoul: Prui wa lp’ari, 2008).
"Senso to media [War and the Media]." Yaguchi Yujin and Yoshihara Mari, eds., Gendai Amerika no kiwado [Keywords of the Contemporary America]. Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 2006, pp. 344-338.
"Shiso no kotoba: seigi to iu tasha." [Keynote Essay: Justice and Alterity]. Shiso 993 (January 2007): 2-5.
"Senso no katari to posuto-reisen no masukyuriniti" [Renarration of the War and Post-Cold War Masculinities]. In Tess Morris-Suziki, et. Al., eds.,
"Contes de deux ruines et au dela Politiques de la memoire: Hiroshima, World Trade Center, innommable camps-bordels japonais." Anne Querrien, trnas. Multitudes 13 (2003): 45-53.