Alan Tansman, ed.

Foreword: Fascism, Yet? / Marilyn Ivy vii
Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism / Alan Tansman 1
Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism
Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation / Kevin M. Doak 31
The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism / Richard Torrance 56
Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History / Harry Harrotunian 80
Part II: Fascism and Daily Life
On the Beauty of Labor: Imagine Factory Girls in Japan's New World Order / Kim Brandt 115
Mediating the Masses: Yanagi S¿etsu and Fascism / Noriko Aso 138
Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and the Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan / Aaron Skabelund 155
Part III: Exhibiting Fascism
Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film / Aaron Gerow 185
All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan / Michael Baskett 212
Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Ch¿reit¿ Memorial Design Competition, 1939-1945 / Akiko Takenaka 235
Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity / Jonathan M. Reynolds 254
Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy / Angus Lockyer 276
The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and the Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine / Ellen Schattschneider 296
Part IV: Literary Fascism
Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari / Nina Cornyetz 321
Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle / Jim Reichert 355
Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shir¿'s The Devil's Disciple / Keith Vincent 381
Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real / James Dorsey 409
Part V: Concluding Essay
The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time / Alejandro Yarza 435
Contributors 451