TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tansman,Alan
TI  - The aesthetics of Japanese fascism
SN  - 9780520245051
U1  - 895.609 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Fascism in literature
KW  - Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Fascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - Fascism
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Japanese literature
N2  - 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
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