- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "In the 1930s and '40s, Japanese political architects of the Manchukuo project in occupied northeast China realized the importance of using various cultural media to promote a modernization program in the region, as well as its expansion into other parts of Asia. Ironically, the writers and artists chosen to spread this imperialist message had left-wing political roots in Japan, where their work strongly favoured modernist, even avant-garde, styles of expression. In Glorify the Empire, Annika Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced modernist works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence towards, Japan's utopian project. During the war, literary and artistic representations of Manchuria accelerated, and the Japanese-led culture in Manchukuo served as a template for occupied areas in Southeast Asia. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period in Japanese history."--Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Glorify the empire (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Glorify the empire (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-247) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Contents
- Introduction: Propaganda in the Manchukuo Context, 1932-45 -- Laying the Groundwork for the Japanese Avant-Garde Propagandists -- Literature in Service of the State: Yamada Seizaburô and Right-Wing Proletarianism, 1931-43 -- Surrealism in Service of the State: Fukuzawa Ichirô and Associates, 1935-36 -- The Lure of Artistic Vision and Commercial Prerogative: Ai Mitsu and the Burden of Representation, 1935 and 1943 -- Reflections of Labour and the Construction of the New State: Fuchikami Hakuyô and Manchuria Graph, 1933-41 -- The Manchukuo Publicity and News Bureau's War of Words and Images: Mutô Tomio and the Discourse of Culture, 1938-43 -- The Legitimization of a Multi-Ethnic Literary Culture in Manchukuo: Kawabata Yasunari's Promotion of Manchurian Literature, 1941-44 -- Conclusion: The Reflected Utopia Darkens: Manchukuo, Imperial Japan's Surrender, and Postwar Issues.
- LCCN
- 2013431486
- OCLC
- ssj0001399016
- Author
Culver, Annika A., 1975-
- Title
Glorify the empire [electronic resource] : Japanese avant-garde propaganda in Manchukuo / Annika A. Culver.
- Imprint
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-247) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic formats.
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- Other Form:
Culver, Annika A., 1975- Glorify the empire. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013. (CaOONL)20129069760