War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920–1960
This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960. These forty years, punctuated by war, occupation, and reconstruction, were turbulent and brutal, but also important and even productive for the arts. The volume takes a trans‑war (rather than an inter‑war) approach, beginning with the cultural politics of painting, poetry, and fiction in Japanese‑occupied Korea and Taiwan following World War I. The narrative continues with the impact of Japan's war in China and the Pacific War on major Japanese novelists, playwrights, painters, and filmmakers, before moving on to the final stage, Japan's defeat and initial recovery. During the Allied Occupation of Japan and in its aftermath, Japanese artists both confronted and dismissed the question of war responsibility by preserving, reviving, or reinventing the political cartoon, Kabuki drama, literature of the body, and the aesthetics of decadence.
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1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Asia, Graphic art, Painting, Illustration, Art history and art criticism, 20th‑century history, Cinema, China, Korea, Literature, Mass culture, Politics, Postcolonial studies, Poetry, USA, Theater, Japan
Mayo Marlene J. (Article author, Preface), Wolfe Alan (Article author), Rimer Thomas J. (Article author), Kerkham Eleanor H. (Article author), McCann David R. (Article author), Yee Angelina C. (Article author), Hsiu‑hsiung Wang (Article author), Kim Youngna (Article author), Cook Haruko Taya (Article author), Sandler Mark Howard (Article author), Hirano Kyōko (Article author), Sodei Rinjirō (Article author)
Maruki Iri, Mizoguchi Kenji, Noguchi Isamu, Ozu Yasujirō, Sakaguchi Ango, Tamura Taijirō, Kim Sowŏl, Yang Kui, Abe Kōbō, Degas Edgar, Delacroix Eugène, Dazai Osamu, Hayashi Fumiko, Ishikawa Tatsuzō, Itami Mansaku, Kishida Kunio, Kumagai Hisatora, Kurosawa Akira, Lin Yushan, Maruki Toshi
Honolulu
2001
424 pages
9780824824334
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