Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo

Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo
ISBN-10
0774824387
ISBN-13
9780774824385
Category
Political Science
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2013-02-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Annika A. Culver

Description

In the 1930s and ’40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japan’s modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were previously left-wing politically. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced avant-garde works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence toward, Japan’s utopian project. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period of Japanese history.

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