Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520295455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold propo
She uncovers the subtle ways that the image of the child was placed at the forefront of Japanese war rhetoric and practice. In this innovative, well-researched book, Frühstück probes the seemingly contradictory ways in which the modern nation-state sought to protect childhood while increasingly militarizing the children themselves through war games, children's literature, and maps of Japan's expanding empire."—Sheldon Garon, author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. From boys playing with bamboo sticks in preparation for Japan’s wars of imperial expansion to young girls appearing in the twenty-first-century video clips to show that the navy’s sole task is defending the peace, the changing image of children's play has kept pace with how they and the state have imagined war."—Nicholas Stargardt, author of Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis and The German War: A Nation