Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is the William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of a number of books in English and Japanese, most recently Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time; The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual; and Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan.
Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student scholars" volunteer to serve in Japan's "tokkotai" (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? Did they embody the imperial ideology both in thought and in action? In this study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honoured Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honour to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
發表於2024-12-19
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每次從人類曆史這一宏大敘事的視角來看個體的人時,總令人感慨。淚點低如我,在看《神風特攻隊、櫻花與民族主義》時,不禁鼻頭發酸。在許多人印象中一群自願執行自殺性攻擊的士兵們,其背後也有著如此的復雜且矛盾的情感。其中當然不乏被天皇製軍國主義成功洗腦的士兵,他們心...
評分承襲像漢娜阿倫特的《平庸之惡》等人的思考維度,該書也是從日本法西斯行動下層參與者的角度,去看待軍國主義,法西斯行動。導論部分尤為精彩,作者提齣瞭諸多重要問題,包括國傢民族主義如何發展,國傢民主主義如何成功或不成功地“普通”個體所接受,一個個體如何承認社會責...
評分 評分太平洋戰爭末期,日本帝國海陸軍相繼組建瞭諸如“神風特攻隊”一類自殺性襲擊的敢死隊。“自願”加入特攻隊的萬餘名士兵裏,最終陣亡近4000人,而陣亡者當中,又有1/4的學生兵,也就是大學一二年級的新生或是高中生。 一直以來,我們以為這類敢死隊員必定是軍國主義的狂熱信徒...
評分老婆買瞭這本《被扭麯的櫻花》一段時間瞭,瞧她沒要看的意思,就拿來翻看。大戰期間的人民到底是怎麼看待戰爭,本身也是個有趣而龐大的主題,特別是一般被認為是發動戰爭的元凶的軸心三國。先說看起來很重要但其實常被忽略的義大利,法西斯黨徒是很開心地想要分杯羹,但人民卻...
圖書標籤: Japan 英文版 曆史 culture 愛作為政治概念 日本 大貫惠美子 人類學
民族主義實在是一個有趣的話題
評分受到廣泛警告不要選老太太的課,不要跟老太太走太近…
評分一口氣讀完,寫的非常流暢,看的很舒服。相比起櫻花作為符號是如何被動用為政治意識形態並潛移默化地和傳統美學相媾和,她更有力的論證還是文化不是一個邊界分明的、本質的、local的實在體。敢死隊年輕飛行員們的讀書清單真的相當震撼。"This book, I hope, will serve not simply as a requiem for the pilots and countless other war victims, Japanese and non-Japanese, but as a reminder that such tragedies should never be repeated." 再看到櫻花,尤其是神社麵前的櫻花,應該要想起這些同齡人字字泣血的心。
評分一口氣讀完,寫的非常流暢,看的很舒服。相比起櫻花作為符號是如何被動用為政治意識形態並潛移默化地和傳統美學相媾和,她更有力的論證還是文化不是一個邊界分明的、本質的、local的實在體。敢死隊年輕飛行員們的讀書清單真的相當震撼。"This book, I hope, will serve not simply as a requiem for the pilots and countless other war victims, Japanese and non-Japanese, but as a reminder that such tragedies should never be repeated." 再看到櫻花,尤其是神社麵前的櫻花,應該要想起這些同齡人字字泣血的心。
評分受到廣泛警告不要選老太太的課,不要跟老太太走太近…
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載