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Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan

Sabine Frühstück

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Description:In Playing War, Sabine Fruhstuck makes a bold that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. She argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Fruhstuck identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan. To get started finding Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In Playing War, Sabine Fruhstuck makes a bold that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. She argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Fruhstuck identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan. To get started finding Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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