@article{ref1,
title="Enter the Japanese imperial marine: Postwar comedy and Errol Brathwaite's an affair of men",
journal="Arcadia",
year="2014",
author="McKay, D.",
volume="49",
number="2",
pages="368-391",
abstract="Studies of Anglophone comedic fiction writing on the Second World War invariably concentrate on literary depictions of the war in Europe. In this article, I recover a neglected New Zealand novel that instead takes the war in the Pacific as its setting. Though it was not marketed as a comedic work, Errol Brathwaite's An Affair of Men (1961) intentionally crosses boundaries of style and genre in ways that render its principal character, a Japanese Captain in the Imperial Marines, increasingly buffoonish. I argue that Brathwaite's language, scenarios, and depictions were intended to confirm a perspective on enemy psychology that remained common throughout the Anglophone world well after the cessation of hostilities.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-7982",
doi="10.1515/arcadia-2014-0029",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2014-0029"
}