The Culture of Japanese Fascism
This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology describe a culture of fascism in Japan in th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
Duke University Press
2009.
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| Colección: | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720234706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Fascism, Yet?
- Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism
- Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism
- Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation
- The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism
- Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History
- Part II: Fascism and Daily Life
- The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan's New Order
- Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism
- Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan
- Part III: Exhibiting Fascism
- Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film
- All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan
- Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Construction Movement, 1939-1945
- Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity
- Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy
- The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and Ritual Appropriation at Yasukuni Shrine
- Part IV: Literary Fascism
- Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari
- Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle
- Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō's The Devil's Disciple
- Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real
- Part V: Concluding Essay
- The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time
- Contributors
- Index
