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Title

Glorify the empire : Japanese avant-garde propaganda in Manchukuo / Annika A. Culver.

Author

Culver, Annika A., 1975-

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Description

xii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

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.

Subject

• Propaganda, Japanese > Manchuria > History > 20th century
• Arts > History > Manchuria > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > History > Manchuria > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Manchuria > Propaganda
• World War, 1939-1945 > Manchuria > Art and the war
• Artists > Japan > History > 20th century
• Propaganda in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-247) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780774824361
• 0774824360

OCLC

• ocn813523110
• SCSB-9632847

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries