TY - BOOK ID - 80876781 TI - The aesthetics of Japanese fascism PY - 2009 SN - 9780520943490 052094349X 9780520245051 0520245059 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Japanese literature KW - Fascism in literature. KW - Fascist aesthetics KW - Fascism KW - Neo-fascism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Collectivism KW - Corporate state KW - National socialism KW - Synarchism KW - Totalitarianism KW - Aesthetics KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - 1920s. KW - 1930s. KW - 20th century. KW - aesthetics. KW - art aesthetics. KW - cultural expression. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural perspective. KW - global history. KW - historical. KW - human condition. KW - japan. KW - japanese culture. KW - japanese essays. KW - japanese fascism. KW - japanese film. KW - japanese music. KW - japanese novels. KW - japanese politics. KW - modern history. KW - nonfiction. KW - political science. KW - popular music. KW - postwar japan. KW - pre war japan. KW - retrospective. KW - revolution. KW - spiritual history. KW - violence. KW - world history. KW - world war ii. KW - wwii. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80876781 AB - 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 1920's through its flowering in the 1930's to its afterlife in postwar Japan. ER -