Michele M Mason

Biographic Data

ID247916
NAMEMichele M Mason
GIVEN NAMESMichele M
FAMILY NAMEMason
SIGNATUREMASON M M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Alison Fields. Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture

    Open AccessMichele M MasonARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

  • Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan by Hiroko Matsuda

    Michele M MasonARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2020

    Reviewed by: Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan by Hiroko Matsuda Michele M. Mason (bio) Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan. By Hiroko Matsuda. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. xii, 205 pages. $68.00, cloth; $28.00, paper. Liminality of the Japanese Empire is an important work that addresses a long-overlooked topic and region while recogn…

  • Seventeen's Battle with the Cult of Masculinity: Reading Ōe Kenzaburō's 1960s Critique of Rightist Resurgence in the Age of Abe

    Open AccessMichele M Mason, Michele MasonARTICLEJapan focus2017

    1960 was marked by radical political and social upheavals as the Japanese wartime old guard returned to power after the end of the U.S. occupation (1945-1952). In May of that year, unindicted-war-criminal-turned-prime-minister Kishi Nobusuke (1896-1987) forced the controversial Japan-U.S. Security Treaty through the Diet in the dead of night after police removed members of the opposition parties. Over the next six months, millions of Japanese too…

  • Rule in the Name of Protection: The Japanese State, the Ainu and the Vocabulary of Colonialism

    Open AccessKomori Yoichi, Michele M Mason et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2016

    Many Japanese and others today understand Hokkaido as an ancient part of Japan, and do not know that the island was only formally absorbed in the mid-19th century. This article explains the process by which the island of Ezo was annexed by the Japanese in 1868 and renamed Hokkaido ("the path to the northern seas"). The Japanese also began transforming Ezo, now Hokkaido, in order to thoroughly incorporate the island into the new central polity. Th…

  • Rule in the Name of Protection: The Japanese State, the Ainu and the Vocabulary of Colonialism

    Open AccessKomori Yoichi, Helen J S Lee et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2013

    By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-Western colonial power in the twentieth century, Japan at the height of its empire controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. Its reach extended from Sakhalin Island north of the Japanese archipelago to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific and expanded into Manchuria, areas of China, Korea, and much of Southeast Asia and Micronesia. Ov…

  • Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan: Envisioning the Periphery and the Modern Nation-State

    M Mason, Michele M MasonBOOKDominant Narratives of Colonial…2012

    1. Harvesting History: Modern Narratives for Patriotic Pioneers and the Imperial Military 2. Writing Ainu Out: The 'Nature' of Japanese Colonialism in Hokkaido 3. Penal Colonies and Political Protest: Narrating the Transformation of National Identity and Literature 4. A Pantheon of Promises: Fantasies of Freedom and Capitalist Dreams 5. Contested Sites of an Enduring Colonial Past

  • Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945

    Michele M MasonARTICLESocial History2012

    Mark Driscoll, Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945 (2010), xv + 361 (Duke University Press, Durham and London, £67.00/$89.95, paperba

  • Writing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Historical Manga

    Open AccessMichele M Mason, Michele MasonARTICLEJapan focus2012

    This article addresses the struggles of two manga artists, Kōno Fumiyo and Nishioka Yuka, who attempt to portray the unprecedented tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for a contemporary audience, and how they come to terms with their authority to write this history as non-hibakusha

  • Revisiting narratives of Meiji ‘progress: Seiji Shōsetsuas sexual and political opposition

    Michele M MasonARTICLEJapan Forum2011References: 8

    In 1890, as Japan celebrated national unity through the opening of the Imperial Diet, Hara Hōitsuan's Secret Politician (Anchū seijika, 1890) spotlighted the government's violent suppression of opposition voices in the Freedom and Popular Rights Movement of the 1880s. Much more than just a notable embodiment of the contestatory nature of the creation of the modern Japanese nation-state, Secret Politician also punctuates the end of the period of p…

  • Complicating Slavery: Teaching with Runaway Slave Advertisements

    M Mason, Michele M Mason et al.ARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2003

    Perhaps the most revolutionary aspect of the American Revolution was the abolition of slavery in the northern states. It ended slavery where it had once flourished, began the process of reconstructing black life in freedom, and initiated a series of emancipations which eventually banished slavery from the Americas. With abolition, slavery was no longer a continental institution, but a sectional one. The North became the land of freedom; the South…