Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415516501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 190 str.

Denis Gainty

Opis

This text shows how the movement to define and popularise Japanese martial arts in the late Meiji period brought Japanese bodies, Japanese nationalisms, and the Japanese state into sustained contact and dynamic engagement with one another. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, Denis Gainty shows how the metaphor of a national body and the cultural and historical meanings of martial arts were celebrated and appropriated by modern Japanese at all levels of society, allowing them to participate powerfully in shaping the modern Japanese nation and state.

Recenzje

"incisive and novel contribution to the field of Japanese studies" - Robin Kietlinkski, City University of New York, Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18

O autorze

Denis Gainty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University, USA.