The Culture of Japanese Fascism

Published by Duke University Press 2009

The Culture of Japanese Fascism

Edited by: Alan Tansman , Rey Chow , Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi
With contributions by: Marilyn Ivy

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390701

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Alan Tansman is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Writings of Kōda 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.

Reviews

“So can a volume focused on the cultural aspects of a primarily political concept succeed? Yes, indeed. This book offers a wealth of fresh information on the era of fascism in Japan, ranging from the ‘high road’ of intellectual history and literary studies to more accessible insights on the role of dogs and propaganda lies about Pearl Harbour. . . . [An] excellent study of fascist Japan.” - Lawrence Fouraker, Itinerario

“[T]he essays in this collection provide informative perspectives on topics such as literature, film, architectural design, exhibitions and popular culture. . . .” - Roger Brown, Social Science Japan Journal

“Alan Tansman deserves tremendous credit for bringing together this multidisciplinary group of scholars to deal with an issue conspicuously neglected by the majority of scholars in Japan studies. . . . The publication of this insightful set of essays in this volume is without question an important contribution to our understanding of a culture of Japanese fascism as a local manifestation of a truly international political and cultural phenomenon.” - Walter Skya, Journal of Japanese Studies

“An extremely provocative and stimulating collection of essays, The Culture of Japanese Fascism canvasses a wide array of cultural forms—movies, novels, religious rites, material culture, monuments, and architecture—to show the ways that fascist aesthetics saturated a dispersed cultural field. By focusing on thought and culture, it helps us rethink the turn from modernism to fascism, to understand fascism’s effects on everyday life, and to reconsider the reigning conceptions of fascist ideology.”—Louise Young, author of Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

“These rich and varied essays provide a fascinating, if unsettling, depiction of the seductive appeal of fascist culture. They also show how much Japan shared with Europe in its aesthetic responses to the crisis of modernity in the interwar years. An important contribution in every respect.”—Carol Gluck, Columbia University

-- Roger Brown Social Science Japan Journal

-- Walter Skya Journal of Japanese Studies

-- Lawrence Fouraker Itinerario

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword: Fascism, Yet? Marilyn Ivy Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism Alan Tansman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism
Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation Kevin M. Doak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The People’s Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism Richard Torrance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan’s Modern History Harry Harootunian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part II: Fascism and Daily Life
The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan’s New Order Kim Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism Noriko Aso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Fascism’s Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan Aaron Skabelund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Part III: Exhibiting Fascism
Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film Aaron Gerow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan Michael Baskett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Construction Movement, 1939–1945 Akiko Takenaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Japan’s Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity Jonathan M. Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy Angus Lockyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and Ritual Appropriation at Yasukuni Shrine Ellen Schattschneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Part IV: Literary Fascism
Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari Nina Cornyetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo’s Demon of the Lonely Isle Jim Reichert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō’s The Devil’s Disciple Keith Vincent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: “Fascist Proclivities” Made Real James Dorsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Part V: Concluding Essay
The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time Alejandro Yarza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 496
Illustrations
- Other: 24 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 13, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390701