War, Occupation, and Creativity

Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960

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Edited by Marlene J. Mayo, H. Eleanor Kerkham and J. Thomas Rimer

University of Hawaii Press

Due/Published August 2001, 504 pages, paper

ISBN 0824824334

This collection of essays is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960. The volume takes a trans-war (rather than an inter-war) approach, beginning with the cultural politics of painting, poetry, and fiction in Japanese-occupied Korea and Taiwan following World War I.