Name: Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (en Inglés)
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Author: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
ISBN: 9780226620916

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portada Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Autor

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

411

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0226620913

ISBN13

9780226620916

N° edición

Categorías

Segunda guerra mundial - (c. 1939-c. 1945)
Segunda guerra mundial

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (en Inglés)

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Autor) · Univ Of Chicago Pr · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (en Inglés)"

Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor.Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.