Dryburgh, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-2452-2543 (2023) ‘My Manchuria’: memoir, manga and the legacies of Japanese wartime childhoods. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 16 (2). pp. 287-305. ISSN 1941-3599
Abstract
This study explores the life stories of Japanese settler children repatriated from Northeast China after 1945 to show that Japanese children might be critical witnesses to Japan's defeat and its consequences, as well as simply loyal supporters or innocent victims of the war. Through analyzing autobiographical works by manga artist Morita Kenji along with reader responses to these, I demonstrate that their stories were marked by loss and trauma inflicted within the Japanese community as well as by others and that later stories of war and repatriation were embedded in fraught family conversation as well as in public discourse.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2023 16:33 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2023 15:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/hcy.2023.0028 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195873 |