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9780822387459

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English

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December 7, 1941-the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor-is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes dozens of different historical lessons. In A Date Which Will Live, historian Emily S. Rosenberg examines the contested meanings of Pearl Harbor in American culture.Rosenberg considers the emergence of Pearl Harbor's symbolic role within multiple contexts: as a day of infamy that highlighted the need for future U.S. military preparedness, as an attack that opened a "back door" to U.S. involvement in World War II, as an event of national commemoration, and as a central metaphor in American-Japanese relations. She explores the cultural background that contributed to Pearl Harbor's resurgence in American memory after the fiftieth anniversary of the attack in 1991. In doing so, she discusses the recent "memory boom" in American culture; the movement to exonerate the military commanders at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short; the political mobilization of various groups during the culture and history "wars" of the 1990s, and the spectacle surrounding the movie Pearl Harbor. Rosenberg concludes with a look at the uses of Pearl Harbor as a historical frame for understanding the events of September 11, 2001.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

25 août 2003

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822387459

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

A Date Which Will Live

american encounters / global interactions

A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the ﬂuid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. Amer-ican Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collabora-tion between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to un-derstand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

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Emily S. Rosenberg

A Date Which Will Live

Pearl Harbor in American Memory

Duke University Press Durham & London

2003

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Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction1

Signifying Pearl Harbor: The First Fifty Years9

1.Infamy: Reinvigorating American Unity and Power 2.Backdoor Deceit: Contesting the New Deal34 3.Representations of Race and Japanese-American Relations53 4.Commemoration of Sacriﬁce71

Reviving Pearl Harbor after1991

5.Bilateral Relations: Pearl Harbor’s Half-Century Anniversary and the Apology Controversies101 6.The Memory Boom and the ‘‘Greatest Generation’’113 7.The Kimmel Crusade, the History Wars, and the Republican Revival126 8.Japanese Americans: Identity and Memory Culture140 9.Spectacular History155 10.Day of Infamy: September 11, 2001174

Notes191 Bibliography213 Index229

Acknowledgments

Many people have assisted the shaping and production of this book. As the book itself stresses the contexts of historical produc-tion, I would like to indicate some of its own background by thanking those to whom, as readers, I am directly indebted. First and foremost, I wish to thank Norman Rosenberg. It is within our continual dialogue about the meanings of history that all of my work has taken shape. Akira Iriye, long an inﬂuence on my schol-arship, provided an initial invitation to join with several others in investigating a topic of historical memory related to the United States, Japan, and the Paciﬁc War. Collaborators in this larger historical memory project commented on this work at two con-ferences, held in 2001 and 2002. The book beneﬁted enormously from generous readers who made suggestions, caught errors, and provided encouragement. I especially wish to thank Paul Solon and Jerry Fisher, my colleagues at Macalester College, along with John Dower, Marc Gallicchio, Waldo Heinrichs, Akira Iriye, and Edward T. Linenthal. Ruth Rosenberg, Matt Diediker, David Itzko-witz, and Frank Costigliola alerted me to relevant materials. Two students provided valuable assistance. Katherine Forsyth, as part of our larger conversation about historical memory, co-authored chapter 8. Anthony Todd, with diligence, meticulous attention to detail, and great humor, provided help with research, computer

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