标题: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney（大贯惠美子）：Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms [打印本页] 作者: 南池子 时间: 2015-9-2 17:52 标题: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney（大贯惠美子）：Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
作者: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
出版社: University Of Chicago Press
副标题: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
出版年: 2002-10-1
页数: 428
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780226620916
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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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
大貫惠美子（Ohnuki Emiko）
日本神戶市出生，津田塾大學畢業後，獲得傅爾布萊特獎學金赴美深造，1968年取得威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校人類學博士學位，現為威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校人類學系William F. Vilas講座教授，亦為美國文理科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）正會員。大貫惠美子赴美後先研究底特律城的中國社區歷史，繼而研究遷居北海道的庫頁島愛奴人（Ainu），在此過程中出版了三本著作。當她了解到研究「記憶文化」（memory culture）的侷限性之後，便將焦點轉向日本，撰寫了Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan（日本人的疾病觀，1984），這是她第一本關於日本研究的著作。
