Tansman / Chow / Harootunian The Culture of Japanese Fascism

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9070-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Focusing on Japan, scholars of history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology demonstrate the necessity of understanding fascisms cultural manifestations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tansman, Alan

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ivy, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Fascism, Yet? / Marilyn Ivy vii

Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism / Alan Tansman 1

Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism

Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation / Kevin M. Doak 31

The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism / Richard Torrance 56

Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History / Harry Harrotunian 80

Part II: Fascism and Daily Life

On the Beauty of Labor: Imagine Factory Girls in Japan's New World Order / Kim Brandt 115

Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Soetsu and Fascism / Noriko Aso 138

Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and the Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan / Aaron Skabelund 155

Part III: Exhibiting Fascism

Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film / Aaron Gerow 185

All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan / Michael Baskett 212

Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chureito Memorial Design Competition, 1939-1945 / Akiko Takenaka 235

Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity / Jonathan M. Reynolds 254

Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy / Angus Lockyer 276

The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and the Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine / Ellen Schattschneider 296

Part IV: Literary Fascism

Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari / Nina Cornyetz 321

Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle / Jim Reichert 355

Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shiro's The Devil's Disciple / Keith Vincent 381

Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real / James Dorsey 409

Part V: Concluding Essay

The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time / Alejandro Yarza 435

Contributors 451

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Tansman is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Writings of Koda Aya: A Japanese Literary Daughter and a co-editor of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature. Marilyn Ivy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Marilyn Ivy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.