The Latticed Bars of Gender and Sexuality in Japan’s Fifteen Year War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6138090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathy J Phillips (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Women (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-925X • E-ISSN: 2586-5714 |
| Publisher | XMLink (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14431/aw.2010.06.26.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W1518634726 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
After giving background on my theoretical approach, I will illustrate attitudes toward manhood and the body during Japan’s Fifteen Year War from Tatsuzo Ishikawa’s novel Solders Alive (1938) and Osamu Dazai’s short stories of the 1930s and '40s and his novel The Setting Sun (1947). While supporting the Empire, Ishikawa seriously criticizes many of its practices. Even more blatantly than Ishikawa, Dazai satirizes wartime definitions of manhood, after donning some camouflage to get past censorship. I also look back at Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story “Hell Screen” (1918), teetering ambivalently on the cusp of change between the nineteenth-century and the militarization of the 1930s because this tale illuminates some of the sources (European and Japanese) for the “manly” detachment and sacrifice that weigh so heavily on Ishikawa’s and Dazai’s characters
Human sexuality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |