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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501729089
035 _a(DE-B1597)503251
035 _a(OCoLC)1031422528
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072 7 _aPOL031000
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082 0 4 _a306.20952
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLeheny, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEmpire of Hope :
_bThe Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline /
_cDavid Leheny.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (246 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tConventions --
_t1. Maybe They Will Smile Back --
_t2. Souls of the Ehime Maru --
_t3. Cheer Up, Vietnam --
_t4. Cool Optimism --
_t5. Staging The Empire of Light --
_t6. The Peripheral U-Turn --
_t7. Everything Sinks --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aEmpire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country's postwar path. From the medical treatment of conjoined Vietnamese children, victims of Agent Orange, the global promotion of Japanese popular culture, a tragic maritime accident involving a US Navy submarine, to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, this story has shaped the way in which political figures, writers, officials, and observers have depicted what the nation feels.Expressions of national emotion do several things: they construct the boundaries of the national body, they inform and discipline appropriate expression, and they depoliticize messy problems that threaten to produce divisive questions about winners and losers. Most important, they work because they appear to be natural, simple and expected expressions of how the nation shares feeling, even when they paper over the extraordinary divergence in how the nation's citizens experience each incident. In making its arguments, Empire of Hope challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing—unlike those who build from the neuroscientific turn in the social sciences or those developing affect theory in the humanities—that the focus should be on emotional representation rather than on emotion itself.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEmotions
_xPolitical aspects
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aEmotions
_xPolitical aspects
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, Japanese.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zJapan
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism.
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653 _aJapan, emotion, politics, narrative, national identity.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501729089?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501729089
856 4 2 _3Cover
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