The aesthetics of Japanese fascism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tansman, Alan, 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Series:	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:	Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Fascism in literature. Fascist aesthetics > Japan > History > 20th century. Fascism > Japan > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Modernist beginnings : Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
The beauty of violence : Yasuda Yojūrō's "Japanese bridges"
Objects of the sublime in literary writing : Yasuda Yojūrō, Yanagi Sōetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya
The rhetoric of unspoken fascism : the essence of the national polity
Sentimental fascism on screen : Mother under the eyelids
An aesthetics of devotion : Kobayashi Hideo's cultural criticism
Filaments of fascism in postwar times
Coda : Reading fascist aesthetics.