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Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections
between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging
that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan's East Asian empire
(1895-1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric
that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the
empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that
subjugated them and marking their attempts to self-identify as
Japanese as inauthentic, illegitimate forms of "passing" or
"posing." Visions of inclusion encouraged assimilation but also
threatened to disrupt the very logic of imperialism itself: If
there was no immutable difference between Taiwanese and Japanese
subjects, for example, then what justified the subordination of the
former to the latter? The chapters emphasize the plurality and
heterogeneity of empire, together with the contradictions and
tensions of its ideologies of race, nation, and ethnicity. The
paradoxes of passing, posing, and persuasion opened up unique
opportunities for colonial contestation and negotiation in the
arenas of cultural production, including theater, fiction, film,
magazines, and other media of entertainment and propaganda consumed
by audiences in mainland Japan and its colonies. From Meiji
adaptations of Shakespeare and interwar mass media and colonial
fiction to wartime propaganda films, competing narratives sought to
shape how ambiguous identities were performed and read. All empires
necessarily engender multiple kinds of border crossings and
transgressions; in the case of Japan, the policing and blurring of
boundaries often pivoted on the outer markers of ethno-national
identification. This book showcases how actors-in multiple senses
of the word-from all parts of the empire were able to move in and
out of different performative identities, thus troubling its
ontological boundaries.