Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88) Womens's Studies knowing he cannot return home

knowing he cannot return home without completing his pilgrimage

he goes after the man who touched someone close to him

All twenty-four contributors have engaged John's ideas about prophets and/or history as students

Despite herself

and all of the women he ever loved—including his mother—are at risk

Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88) Womens's Studies knowing he cannot return homePlaying in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This same influx fostered the creation of organizations such as the Kokujin kenky no kai (The Japanese