The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism by Tansman, Alan

The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520245051)

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The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism by Tansman, Alan

The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

$85.00
The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism by Tansman, Alan

The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility--present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings--helped 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.

Author: Alan Tansman
ISBN-10: 0520245059
ISBN-13: 9780520245051
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/18/2009 pg. 16
By Alan Tansman
By Alan Tansman
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Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Writings of Ka Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter and editor, with Dennis Washburn, of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan.

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