Redacted the archives of censorship in transwar Japan - Abel, Jonathan E. (University of California Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-344) and index
The censor's archives and beyond -- Indices of censorship -- Essaying the censors -- Seditious obscenities -- Literary casualties of war -- Epigraphs -- Redactionary literature -- Beyond X -- Unnaming and the language of slaves -- Redaction countertime
This study examines the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the dark valley attributed to wartime culture and to cast a shadow on the supposedly bright, open space of free postwar discourse