- 368 pages
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The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism
About this book
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibilityâpresent in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writingsâhelped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920s through its flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in postwar Japan.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism
- 1. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
- 2. The Beauty of Violence: Yasuda Yojuro's âJapanese Bridgesâ
- 3. Objects of the Sublime in Literary Writing: Yasuda Yojuro, Yanagi Soetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya
- 4. The Rhetoric of Unspoken Fascism: The Essence of the National Polity
- 5. Sentimental Fascism on Screen: Mother under the Eyelids
- 6. An Aesthetics of Devotion: Kobayashi Hideoâs Cultural Criticism
- 7. Filaments of Fascism in Postwar Times
- Coda: Reading Fascist Aesthetics
- Notes
- Index