. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
This chapter considers the close connection between modernism and fascism in Japan. It discusses how Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's modernism displays the origins of a distinctly Japanese fascist aesthetic. Though Akutagawa died before Japan's entry into war and totalitarianism and never married those aesthetics to a politics of violence or death, we might wonder still whether his aesthetics would have led to such a politics. It is argued that Kobayashi Hideo's modernism, so richly informed by Akutagawa's, made that very turn.
Keywords: Japan, fascism, modernism, fascist aesthetics, Kobayashi Hideo, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
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