The American occupation of Japan and Okinawa : literature and memory / Michael S. Molasky 

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Burned-out ruins and barbed-wire fences -- Roads to no-man's land -- A base town in the literary imagination -- A darker shade of difference -- Female floodwalls -- Ambivalent allegories -- The occupier within -- Epilogue : Occupation literature in the post-Vietnam era.