TY - BOOK AU - Ericson,Joan E. AU - Haag,Andre AU - Kang,Yuni AU - Kleeman,Faye Yuan AU - Kono,Kimberly AU - Kwon,Nayoung Aimee AU - Ryu,Catherine AU - Textor,Cindi AU - Tierney,Robert AU - Yamasaki,Nabuko AU - Yamasaki,Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya AU - Yi,Christina AU - Yuni,Kang TI - Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire SN - 9780824896270 AV - PL726.82.E84 U1 - 895.609/0044 23/eng/20230807eng PY - 2023///] CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaii Press KW - Ethnicity KW - Japan KW - Colonies KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Japanese literature KW - Shōwa period, 1926-1989 KW - History and criticism KW - Literature in propaganda KW - Passing (Identity) KW - Propaganda, Japanese KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh KW - Asian History KW - Japanese Literature KW - Performing Arts N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; 1. Introduction: Passing, Posing, and Persuasion in the Japanese Empire --; 2. A Japanese Othello in Taiwan: Performing Patriarchy, Race, and Empire in Imperial Japan --; 3. Passing and Posing in Colonial Manchuria in Murō Saisei’s Koto of the Continent --; 4 Passing, Paranoia, and the Korea Problem: Cultures of “Telling the Difference” in Imperial Japan --; 5 Pluralizing Passing and Transpacific Afro-Asian Solidarities Passings and Impasses across Colonial Korea and the Segregated United States --; 6. Crafting the Colonial “ Japanese Child” --; 7. A Woman for Every Tribe: Li Xianglan and Her Construction of a Pan- Asian Femininity --; 8. Ri Kōran: Posing and Passing as a “Cultured Native” --; 9. In the Shadow of Sӧshi Kaimei: Imposed and Adopted Names in Yū Miri’s The End of August --; Index --; Contributors; restricted access N2 - Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that subjugated them and marking their attempts to self-identify as Japanese as inauthentic, illegitimate forms of “passing” or “posing.” Visions of inclusion encouraged assimilation but also threatened to disrupt the very logic of imperialism itself: If there was no immutable difference between Taiwanese and Japanese subjects, for example, then what justified the subordination of the former to the latter? The chapters emphasize the plurality and heterogeneity of empire, together with the contradictions and tensions of its ideologies of race, nation, and ethnicity. The paradoxes of passing, posing, and persuasion opened up unique opportunities for colonial contestation and negotiation in the arenas of cultural production, including theater, fiction, film, magazines, and other media of entertainment and propaganda consumed by audiences in mainland Japan and its colonies. From Meiji adaptations of Shakespeare and interwar mass media and colonial fiction to wartime propaganda films, competing narratives sought to shape how ambiguous identities were performed and read. All empires necessarily engender multiple kinds of border crossings and transgressions; in the case of Japan, the policing and blurring of boundaries often pivoted on the outer markers of ethno-national identification. This book showcases how actors—in multiple senses of the word—from all parts of the empire were able to move in and out of different performative identities, thus troubling its ontological boundaries UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824896270?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824896270 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824896270/original ER -