{"product_id":"the-culture-of-japanese-fascism-9780822344520","title":"The Culture of Japanese Fascism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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 the decades preceding the end of the Asia-Pacific War. In so doing, they challenge past scholarship, which has generally rejected descriptions of pre-1945 Japan as fascist. The contributors explain how a fascist ideology was diffused throughout Japanese culture via literature, popular culture, film, design, and everyday discourse. Alan Tansman’s introduction places the essays in historical context and situates them in relation to previous scholarly inquiries into the existence of fascism in Japan.\u003cp\u003eSeveral contributors examine how fascism was understood in the 1930s by, for example, influential theorists, an antifascist literary group, and leading intellectuals responding to ca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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,\u003ci\u003e Itinerario\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he essays in this collection provide informative perspectives on topics such as literature, film, architectural design, exhibitions and popular culture. . . .” - Roger Brown, \u003ci\u003eSocial Science Japan Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extremely provocative and stimulating collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Japanese Fascism \u003c\/i\u003ecanvasses 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.”—\u003cb\u003eLouise Young\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eJapan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003cb\u003eCarol Gluck\u003c\/b\u003e, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e“[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 *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Fascism, Yet? \/ Marilyn Ivy vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism \/ Alan Tansman 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism\u003cbr\u003e Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation \/ Kevin M. Doak 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe People's Library\u003c\/i\u003e: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism \/ Richard Torrance 56\u003cbr\u003e Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History \/ Harry Harrotunian 80\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Fascism and Daily Life\u003cbr\u003e On the Beauty of Labor: Imagine Factory Girls in Japan's New World Order \/ Kim Brandt 115\u003cbr\u003e Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism \/ Noriko Aso 138\u003cbr\u003e Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and the Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan \/ Aaron Skabelund 155\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Exhibiting Fascism\u003cbr\u003e Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film \/ Aaron Gerow 185\u003cbr\u003e All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan \/ Michael Baskett 212\u003cbr\u003e Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Design Competition, 1939-1945 \/ Akiko Takenaka 235\u003cbr\u003e Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity \/ Jonathan M. Reynolds 254\u003cbr\u003e Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy \/ Angus Lockyer 276\u003cbr\u003e The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and the Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine \/ Ellen Schattschneider 296\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Literary Fascism\u003cbr\u003e Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari \/ Nina Cornyetz 321\u003cbr\u003e Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's \u003ci\u003eDemon of the Lonely Isle\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Jim Reichert 355\u003cbr\u003e Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō's \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Disciple \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Keith Vincent 381\u003cbr\u003e Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: \"Fascist Proclivities\" Made Real \/ James Dorsey 409\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Concluding Essay\u003cbr\u003e The Spanish Perspective:\u003ci\u003e Romancero Marroquí\u003c\/i\u003e and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time \/ Alejandro Yarza 435\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 451\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534991098199,"sku":"9780822344520","price":2945.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344520.jpg?v=1755858515","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-culture-of-japanese-fascism-9780822344520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}