Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States

Adrienne Carey Hurley

Published by Duke University Press 2011

Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures

Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States

Adrienne Carey Hurley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393955

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About this book

This volume examines how child abuse and youth violence are understood, manufactured, represented, but still disavowed, in contemporary everyday life and culture in Japan and the United States.

Author / Editor information

Adrienne Carey Hurley is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at McGill University.

Reviews

“Organizing her work around children and youth, Adrienne Carey Hurley opens up new ways of conducting cross-cultural work between Japan and the United States. Instead of comparing national cultures and negotiating similarities and differences, Hurley effectively shows how the appetite for representational violence (that necessarily relates to the experience of real violence shared by many youth in Japan and the United States) must be studied as a single phenomenon, one that cannot be split up, and thus neutralized, by overemphasis on national particularities.”—Eric Cazdyn, author of The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan

“This is one of the most unsettling scholarly works I have ever read. Adrienne Carey Hurley has produced a far-reaching, audacious meditation on violence that cannot be reconciled with existing therapeutic regimes, adult-centered political movements, or progressive antiviolence agendas. Her willingness to move her analysis across texts, state geographies, institutional forms, historical contexts, and racial subjectivities is awe inspiring. It is no exaggeration to say that my political identity has been permanently altered by this book.”—Dylan Rodríguez, author of Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition

“Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures is movingly humane and passionately political. Hurley’s compassionate approach to the topics of child abuse and youth violence, underresearched in the field of Japan studies, transcends the limiting framework of juvenile delinquency and those very tropes about children and youth that are criticized in this study.”

-- Eiko Maruko Siniawer Journal of Japanese Studies

“Hurley appeals to those committed to building intergenerational movements for radical social change and transformative justice. Her interdisciplinary analysis will benefit the work of a wide range of actors, from youth advocates, teachers, and social workers to scholars in the newly emerging field of girlhood studies as well as those specializing in the sociology of youth culture.”

-- Lena Carla Palacios McGill Journal of Education

"What Hurley’s work does is expose the ways in which this reality is masked by the self-soothing message that all children are worthy of protection and that protection will be maintained at all costs. That message alone makes this book a worthy read."

-- Bethany Sharpe Human Rights Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1
‘‘Livid with History’’: An Introduction to Part 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
1. Survivor Discourse, the Limits of Objectivity, and Orpha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
2. Shizuko, the Silent Girl: Uchida Shungiku’s Fazaa Fakkaa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. ‘‘Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean’’: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
PART 2
The Message: An Introduction to Part 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
4. Engendering First World Fears: The Teenager and the Terrorist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
5. ‘‘Killer Kids’’ and ‘‘Cutters’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
6. The Fiction of Hoshino Tomoyuki and Japanarchy 2k: Lonely Hearts Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Conclusion. A Case for Reparations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illustrations

eBook

Published: September 14, 2011
ISBN: 9780822393955