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Prisoners of the Japanese : literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience / Roger Bourke.

Title
  1. Prisoners of the Japanese : literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience / Roger Bourke.
Published by
  1. St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006.
Author
  1. Bourke, Roger

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Description
  1. xv, 208 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "In this book Roger Bourke analyses the major novels and films of the prisoner-of-war experience under the Japanese and uncovers the extent to which these fictions have influenced our beliefs. The author also reveals fundamental differences between the prisoner-fictions of the Second World War and those written by and about non-prisoners. Moreover, Bourke's accounts of the prisoner as Christ-figure or Robinson Crusoe are original and thought-provoking."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. 1939-1945
  2. Prisoners of war in literature
  3. War stories, Australian > History and criticism
  4. Prisoners of war in motion pictures
  5. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war
  6. World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war
Genre/Form
  1. War stories, Australian – History and criticism.
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Prisoners of the Japanese -- A Town Like Alice and the prisoner of war as Christ-figure -- Ian Watt and the 'myth' of The Bridge on the River Kwai -- King Rat, Empire of the Sun, and the art of survival -- Australian prisoner-of-war fiction
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-178) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain