Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6082952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Dorsey (0000-0002-2782-6799, Dartmouth Hospital, corresponding author), James Dorsey (Dartmouth College) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 347-379 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Japanese Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-6848 • E-ISSN: 1549-4721 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3591970 |
| OpenAlex | W2795982185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Studies of the writer Sakaguchi Ango (1906–55) conventionally portray him as a staunch opponent of wartime ideology. An analysis of “Nihon bunka shikan” (A personal view of Japanese culture, 1942), however, suggests the iconoclasm prompting this reading is more appropriately attributed to Ango’s conception of a spiritual purity antecedent to intellectual contrivances. In pursuit of this purity he constructs, perhaps inadvertently, an ethnic nationalism fully in accord with mainstream wartime ideology and propaganda. “Darakuron” (Discourse on decadence, 1946), Ango’s postwar classic, is an extension of his vision, and its popularity suggests this strain of nationalism survived the war intact
Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |