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Playing War - Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (Hardcover)
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Playing War - Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (Hardcover)
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In Playing War, Sabine Fruhstuck makes a bold proposition: that for
over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts
of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly
unchildlike purposes: 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 child: 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.
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