War, Occupation, and Creativity : : Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 / / ed. by Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor Kerkham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Cook, Haruko Taya,; Hirano, Kyoko,; Hsiu-hsiung, Wang,; Kerkham, H. Eleanor,; Kim, Youngna,; Mayo, Marlene J.,; McCann, David R.,; Rimer, J. Thomas,; Rimer, Thomas,; Sodei, Rinjirō,; Wolfe, Alan,; Yee, Angelina C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kerkham, H. Eleanor,; Mayo, Marlene J.,; Rimer, J. Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I. EMPIRE: Occupied Territories -- 1. Korea the Colony and the Poet Sowol -- 2. Writing the Colonial Self: Yang Kui's Texts of Resistance and National Identity -- 3. The Development of Official Art Exhibitions in Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation -- 4. Artistic Trends in Korean Painting during the 1930s -- Part 2. CONFLAGRATION: World War II in East Asia and the Pacific -- 5. The Many Lives of Living Soldiers: Ishikawa Tatsuzo and Japan's War in Asia -- 6. Paris in Nanjing: Kishida Kunio Follows the Troops -- 7. A Painter of the "Holy War": Fujita Tsuguji and the Japanese Military -- 8. Japanese Filmmakers and the Responsibility for War: The Case of Itami Mansaku -- Part 3. AFTERMATH OF TOTAL WAR: Allied-Occupied Japan and Postcolonial Asia -- 9. The Double Conversion of a Cartoonist: The Case of Katō Etsurō -- 10. To Be or Not To Be: Kabuki and Cultural Politics in Occupied Japan -- 11. Pleading for the Body: Tamura Taijirō's 1947 Korean Comfort Woman Story, Biography of a Prostitute -- 12. From Pearls to Swine: Sakaguchi Ango and the Humanity of Decadence -- Contributors -- Index