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Lisa YONEYAMA
- Ph.D. (Stanford)
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Lisa Yoneyama (Ph.D. Stanford, 1993; Assoc. Prof., Literature, UCSD) received her B.A. in German Language Studies, M.A. in International Relations, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. She has been a member of the Department since 1992 and offers courses in 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 is the author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory (University of California, 1999) and Violence, War, Redress: The Politics of Multiculturalism (published in Japanese from Iwanami Shoten, 2003). She also co-edited Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001). Hiroshima Traces examined the politics of remembering and forgetting of the history of Japanese colonialism and Japan’s war of aggression within the commemorative practices of Hiroshima’s atomic annihilation. Through exploring various cultural products and texts, including city spaces, nuclear ruins, survivors’ testimonials, and ethnic, colonial and gendered narratives around various memorial icons, such as the Korean victims’ monument, Hiroshima Traces delineated the risks of containment and the unsettling possibilities that the excess of memory can generate in contradictory attempts at representing the unrepresentable. Violence, War, Redress collected a number of essays published in Japanese on multiculturalism, feminism, cultural studies, neo-nationalism and conflicts over historical memories in the global culture wars. Yoneyama’s current project, Cold War Ruins: Redress and Transnational Memories of War, Liberation and Occupation, explores the struggles over memory of Cold War violence and historical justice in the three-way nexus of the U.S., Asia, and Asia/America. Other publications in English include: "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; and "Habits of Knowing Cultural Differences: Chrysanthemum and the Sword in U.S. Liberal Multiculturalism," Topoi. Yoneyama was born in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Kyoto. She lives in San Diego with her historian partner and a cat, En, named after the magnificent kabuki actor, Ichikawa Ennosuke. 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. 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. “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. |