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The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan

Modern Asian studies, 2011-03, Vol.45 (2), p.399-429 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 ;2011 Cambridge University Press ;ISSN: 0026-749X ;ISSN: 1469-8099 ;EISSN: 1469-8099 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X11000126 ;CODEN: MOASBF

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Title:
The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan
Author: MOORE, AARON WILLIAM
Subjects: 1900-1999 ; Asian history ; Audiences ; Autobiographical Materials ; China ; Chinese literature ; Diaries ; diary ; experience ; Genre ; Japan ; Japanese literature ; Language ; Language Disorders ; Memoirs ; Memory ; Military history ; Military personnel ; Narratives ; Oral History ; Part II: Remembering China's War with Japan: The Wartime Generation in Post-war China and East Asia ; Peoples Republic of China ; Political parties ; politics ; postwar period ; prisoner of war ; Propaganda ; prose ; rhetoric ; Self publishing ; Soldiers ; Taiwan ; Treason ; Veterans ; War ; World War II ; Writing
Is Part Of: Modern Asian studies, 2011-03, Vol.45 (2), p.399-429
Description: This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of historical memory narratives in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. I argue that veterans, who had long established a ‘language community’ with a particular way to speak about the war, found it difficult to communicate with post-war audiences that did not share that experience. The paper analyses six categories of ‘memory writing’ that veterans used to engage with memory debates: post-war diaries, ‘testimonial literature’, articles and literary works, surveys and oral histories, memoirs, and paratext. This study thus proposes that veterans do not avoid discussion of war, but can only be ‘heard’ by members of their language community, or by a post-war society that is prepared to ‘listen’ to their message with little mediation. This is a direct consequence of their experience of the war, and how they crafted their language community at that time.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0026-749X
ISSN: 1469-8099
EISSN: 1469-8099
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X11000126
CODEN: MOASBF
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central

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The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 ;2011 Cambridge University Press ;ISSN: 0026-749X ;ISSN: 1469-8099 ;EISSN: 1469-8099 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X11000126 ;CODEN: MOASBF

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