Beyond Hostile IslandsWINNER, JAVIER COY BIENNIAL RESEARCH AWARD, BEST MONOGRAPH Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941 1945, was fought across the worlds largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have focused on American literature without drawing connections