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Sushi South: Teaching Southern Culture in Japan

Sushi South: Teaching Southern Culture in Japan Anne Goodwyn Jones Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 4, 1998, pp. 20-30 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0039 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423774/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:57 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Sushi South Teaching Southern Culture in Japan by Anne Goodwyn Jones Nothing less than an occupation ofthe country will be necessary; not necessarily a very long one, but one long enough to make thefact ofour victory and their defeat incontestable. . . . This then should be theprogramme: Defeat, Occupation, Demilitarisation, Opportunity. —John Morris, Tokyo University, 194) ? 1 996 I was hired for one year to teach southern literature at a Japanese prefectural (state) university near Tokyo. I was puzzled at first by this Japanese interest in American southern literature, but by the time I left for Chiba I thought I had prepared myself to understand. American military occupation for a decade after a physically devastating total military defeat; a constitution written by, enforced by, and serving the interests of the armies of the occupation; a wrenching shift from traditional cultural, social, and economic patterns to join and prosper in western modernity — all I read http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Sushi South: Teaching Southern Culture in Japan

Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (4) – Jan 4, 2012

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University of North Carolina Press
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Anne Goodwyn Jones Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 4, 1998, pp. 20-30 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0039 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423774/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:57 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Sushi South Teaching Southern Culture in Japan by Anne Goodwyn Jones Nothing less than an occupation ofthe country will be necessary; not necessarily a very long one, but one long enough to make thefact ofour victory and their defeat incontestable. . . . This then should be theprogramme: Defeat, Occupation, Demilitarisation, Opportunity. —John Morris, Tokyo University, 194) ? 1 996 I was hired for one year to teach southern literature at a Japanese prefectural (state) university near Tokyo. I was puzzled at first by this Japanese interest in American southern literature, but by the time I left for Chiba I thought I had prepared myself to understand. American military occupation for a decade after a physically devastating total military defeat; a constitution written by, enforced by, and serving the interests of the armies of the occupation; a wrenching shift from traditional cultural, social, and economic patterns to join and prosper in western modernity — all I read

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 4, 2012

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