Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

(University of California Press) At the height of state censorship in Japan, more illicit works were produced than at any other moment; as censors construct their own archives, their acts of suppression yield documents on, against, and in favor of censorship. This study considers the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the repression attributed to wartime culture. Abel is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and in Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.