Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan - (War, Culture and Society) by Adam Broinowski (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan</i> examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change.<br/><br/><i>Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan</i> explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Introducing discourses of colonization and semi-colonialization to his interpretation, Adam Broinowski provides a way to understand <i>Ankoku Butoh</i> as a reaction to the condition of occupation, conceived broadly as a condition suffered by those who are the targets of concerted state violence, spanning from concentration camps, civilian bombing, and the atomic bombs, to the war on terror, and mass surveillance of the contemporary moment. Himself a performer, Broinowski's interpretive paradigms are especially valuable not only in suggesting sources of <i>Butoh</i>'s global relevance but also in attending convincingly to the specificities of performative experience and their significance. It is one of the few historical treatments which appears adequate to the profundity and idiosyncrasy of <i>Butoh</i> performance itself." --<i>Justin Jesty, University of Washington, USA <p/></i>"Adam Broinowski's insightful book examines the evolution of the performing body in Japan's nontraditional performing arts ... Broinowski's knowledge of Japanese cinema is also impressive and this book could serve as a thoroughly researched resource for the study of Japanese films of the early Cold War. The author reveals a deep understanding of butoh's evolution from the nearly "dadaesque" experiments of its origins to the strictly choreographed, though still emotionally raw, works of Gekidan Kaitaisha and beyond." - <i>TDR: The Drama Review <br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Adam Broinowski</b> is Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.
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