According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures.
Drawing extensively from Japanese sources―books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries―Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology.
Название: Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931-1945
Автор: James R. Brandon (Author)
Издательство: University of Hawaii Press
Год издания: 2008
ISBN: 0824832000
Страниц: 481 pages
Язык: english
Формат: pdf в rar
Размер: 11.9 Мб
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