Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Writings of Koda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter and editor, with Dennis Washburn, of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan.

"A groundbreaking contribution to an exciting and newly developing field." -- Roy Starrs Journal Of Japanese Stds "Alan Tansman's The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism ... all in all, well-argued and thoroughly convincing." -- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Monumenta Nipponica

• Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism 1. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryjnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo 2. The Beauty of Violence: Yasuda YojjrQ's "Japanese Bridges" 3. Objects of the Sublime in Literary Writing: Yasuda YojjrQ, Yanagi S_etsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya 4. The Rhetoric of Unspoken Fascism: The Essence of the National Polity 5. Sentimental Fascism on the Screen: Mother under the Eyelids 6. An Aesthetics of Devotion: Kobayashi Hideo's Cultural Criticism 7. Filaments of Fascism in Postwar Times Coda: Reading Fascist Aesthetics Notes Index