The culture of Japanese fascism
By: edited by Alan Tansman.
Contributors: Tansman, Alan, 1960-
Series: Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822344520; 9780822344681
Subjects: Fascism and culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fascism seen and unseen : fascism as a problem in cultural representation / Kevin M. Doak; title: The people's library : the spirit of prose literature versus fascism / Richard Torrance; title: Constitutive ambiguities : the persistence of modernism and fascism in Japan's modern history / Harry Harootunian; title: On the beauty of labor : imagine factory girls in Japan's new order / Kim Brandt; title: Mediating the masses : Yanagi Soetsu and fascism / Noriko Aso; title: Fascism's furry friends : dogs, national identity, and purity of blood in 1930s Japan / Aaron Skabelund; title: Narrating the nationality of a cinema : the case of Japanese prewar film / Aaron Gerow; title: All beautiful fascists? : Axis film culture in imperial Japan / Michael Baskett; title: Architecture for mass-mobilization : the Chureito memorial design competition, 1939/1945 / Akiko Takenaka; title: Japan's imperial diet building in the debate over construction of a national identity / Jonathan M. Reynolds; title: Expo fascism? : ideology, representation, economy / Angus Lockyer; title: The work of sacrifice in the age of mechanical reproduction : bride dolls and the enigma of fascist aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine / Ellen Schattschneider; title: Fascist aesthetics and the politics of representation in Kawabata Yasunari / Nina Cornyetz; title: Disciplining the erotic-grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's demon of the lonely isle / Jim Reichert; title: Hamaosociality : narrative and fascism in Hamao Shiro's the devil's disciple / Keith Vincent; title: Literary tropes, rhetorical looping, and the nine gods of war : "fascist proclivities" made real / James Dorsey; title: The Spanish perspective : Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist  kitsch politics of time / Alejandro Yarza.