Frühstück / Fruhstuck Playing War

Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-96823-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold proposition: that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. She argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Frühstück identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. She interrogates how essentialist notions of both childhood and war have been productively intertwined; how assumptions about childhood and war have converged; and how children and childhood have worked as symbolic constructions and powerful rhetorical tools, particularly in the decades between the nation- and empire-building efforts of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the uneven manifestations of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frühstück, Sabine

Fruhstuck, Sabine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Vulnerability Hypothesis

PART I. PLAYING WAR
Chapter 1 • Field Games
Chapter 2 • Paper Battles

PART II. PICTURING WAR
Chapter 3 • The Moral Authority of Innocence
Chapter 4 • Queering War
Epilogue: The Rule of Babies in Pink

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

FrühstückSabine:
Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan and Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army.