The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan’s New Order

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Fascism, Yet? vii
4. Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism 1
5. Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism
6. Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation 31
7. The People’s Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism 56
8. Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan’s Modern History 80
9. Part II: Fascism and Daily Life
10. The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan’s New Order 115
11. Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism 138
12. Fascism’s Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan 155
13. Part III: Exhibiting Fascism
14. Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film 185
15. All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan 212
16. Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Construction Movement, 1939–1945 235
17. Japan’s Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity 254
18. Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy 276
19. The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and Ritual Appropriation at Yasukuni Shrine 296
20. Part IV: Literary Fascism
21. Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari 321
22. Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo’s Demon of the Lonely Isle 355
23. Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō’s The Devil’s Disciple 381
24. Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: “Fascist Proclivities” Made Real 409
25. Part V: Concluding Essay
26. The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time 435
27. Contributors 451
28. Index 455