War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960

War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 - Paperback

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War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 - Paperback

War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 - Paperback

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by Marlene J. Mayo (Editor), J. Thomas Rimer (Editor), H. Eleanor Kerkham (Editor)

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.

Contributors: Haruko Taya Cook, Kyoko Hirano, Youngna Kim (Kim Youngna), H. Eleanor Kerkham, David R. McCann, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, Mark H. Sandler, Rinjiro Sodei, Wang Hsui-hsiung (Wang Xiuxiong), Alan Wolfe, Angelina C. Yee.
Number of Pages: 424
Dimensions: 1.25 x 9.98 x 7.08 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 25, 2012
ISBN9780824824334
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
GenreHistory and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages424
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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