War, Occupation, and Creativity

Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960

Bibliographic Data

ID19946286
AuthorsHaruko Taya Cook, Kyoko Hirano, Wang Hsiu-hsiung, Youngna Kim, David R Mccann, Thomas Rimer, Rinjiro Sodei, Alan Wolfe, Angelina C Yee
EditorsMarlene J Mayo, J Thomas Rimer, H Eleanor Kerkham
Year2001
Publication date2001-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWar, Occupation, and Creativity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824843779
OpenAlexW2787992184
Open LibraryOL48675731M
ISBN9780824843779
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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

Creativity · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · 1937-1945 · 1950-1953 · 20th century · Art and the war · Art and war · Art, asian · Arts · Arts, Modern · asia · East asia · East Asian Arts · History · Intellectual life · International Relations · Japan · Korean War · Sino-Japanese Conflict · Sino-Japanese War

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