Images of Armageddon: Japan's 1980s Theatre Culture

Images of Armageddon: Japan's 1980s Theatre Culture

After the collapse of the "bubble economy" in the early 1990s and the 1995 Aum Shinri-kyō's terrorist gas attack, the Japanese wrestled once more with the question of their national identity. What links connect today's Japan with the pre-WWII empire, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and t...

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Veröffentlicht in:TDR : Drama review 2000-03, Vol.44 (1), p.85-96
1. Verfasser: Tadashi, Uchino
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Audiences
Contemporary Japanese Performance
Culture
Economic bubbles
History
Holocaust
Japan
Japanese culture
Manga
Narratives
National character studies
Theater
Theater criticism
Theater in art
Togas
World wars
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Zusammenfassung:After the collapse of the "bubble economy" in the early 1990s and the 1995 Aum Shinri-kyō's terrorist gas attack, the Japanese wrestled once more with the question of their national identity. What links connect today's Japan with the pre-WWII empire, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the early postwar years? How is theatre implicated in the national project of memory and forgetting?
ISSN:1054-2043
1531-4715
DOI:10.1162/10542040051058915