Benjamin Uchiyama Japan's carnival war

mass culture on the home front, 1937-1945

"Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness. Benjamin Uchiyama argues that although the war created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society and mass culture, it also fractured Japanese people's sense of identity, spilling out through a cultural framework which is best understood as 'carnival war'. In this cultural history, we are introduced to five symbolic figures: the thrill-seeking reporter,...

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Engels | 280 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK | 2020

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