Japan's Cold War - by Ann Sherif (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Critics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation and culture. </p><p>By rereading the pivotal events, iconic figures, and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War, Ann Sherif places this supposedly insular nation at the center of a global battle. Each of her chapters focuses on a major moment, spectacle, or critical debate highlighting Japan's entanglement with cultural Cold War politics. Film director Kurosawa Akira, atomic bomb writer Hara Tamiki, singer and movie star Ishihara Yujiro, and even <i>Godzilla</i> and the Japanese translation of <i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i> all reveal the trends and controversies that helped Japan carve out a postwar literary canon, a definition of obscenity, an idea of the artist's function in society, and modern modes of expression and knowledge.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Critics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation and culture. <p/>By rereading the pivotal events, iconic figures, and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War, Ann Sherif places this supposedly insular nation at the center of a global battle. Each of her chapters focuses on a major moment, spectacle, or critical debate highlighting Japan's entanglement with cultural Cold War politics. Film director Kurosawa Akira, atomic bomb writer Hara Tamiki, singer and movie star Ishihara Yujiro, and even <i>Godzilla</i> and the Japanese translation of <i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i> all reveal the trends and controversies that helped Japan carve out a postwar literary canon, a definition of obscenity, an idea of the artist's function in society, and modern modes of expression and knowledge. <p/>Sherif's comparative approach not only recontextualizes seemingly anomalous texts and ideas, but binds culture firmly to the domestic and international events that defined the decades following World War II. By integrating the art and criticism of Japan into larger social fabrics, <i>Japan's Cold War</i> offers a truly unique perspective on the critical and creative acts of a country remaking itself in the aftermath of war.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This study will prove a worthy and ultimately rewarding challenge for motivated readers of cultural history... Recommended.--Choice<br><br>An engaging and thought-provoking study of Japan's culture between 1945 and the early 1960s, which convincingly and with intellectual passion demonstrates how the tensions, anxieties, and repressions that were the global currency of the 'high Cold War' also shaped Japan's media and literature at the time.--?Urs Matthias Zachmann "Journal of Japanese Studies "<br><br>Edifying... [a] timely intervention.--John Whittier Treat "American Historical Review "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ann Sherif is professor of Japanese language and literature at Oberlin College. Her publications include <i>Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya</i> (1999).
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