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The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan
Get PDFThis essay engages the colonial legacy of postwar Japan by arguing that the political cartoons produced as part of the postwar Japanese labor movement’s critique of U.S. cultural hegemony illustrate how gendered discourses underpinned,
and sometimes undermined, the ideologies formally represented by visual artists and the organizations that funded them. A significant component of organized
labor’s propaganda rested on a corpus of visual media that depicted women as icons of Japanese national culture. Japan’s most militant labor unions were propagating anti-imperialist discourses that invoked an engendered/endangered nation that accentuated the importance of union roles for men by subordinating, then eliminating, union roles for women
History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. By Harry Harootunian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiii, 182 pp. $22.50 (cloth).
No full textAuthenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shūzō and the Rise of National Aesthetics. By Leslie Pincus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xii, 271 pp. $45.00.
No full textReview of Japanese Culture and Society. Edited by Noriko Mizuta. A journal published semiannually by Josai University (Saitama ken
No full textPacifism in Japan: The Christian and Socialist Tradition. Edited by Nobuya Bamba and John F. Howes. Foreword by Robert N. Bellah. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978. xx, 300 pp. Japanese Personal Names, Contributors, Notes, Index. 9.50 paper.
No full textThe Culture of the Meiji Period. By Irokawa Daikichi. Translation from the Japanese edited by Marius B. Jansen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xvi, 320 pp. Preface to the English Translation, Editor's Introduction, Index of Names Cited. $33.50.
No full textMinoru Kawada, The Origin of Ethnography in Japan. Yanagita Kunio and his Times (traduit du japonais par Toshiko Kishida-Ellis), Londres-New York, Kegan Paul International, 1993, 186 p.
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