Fantasies of Ito Michio - Tara Rodman

Fantasies of Ito Michio

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2024
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07683-3 (ISBN)
83,45 inkl. MwSt
Argues that Ito Michio’s invented stories, unrealized projects, and questionable political affiliations are as fundamental to his career as his “real” activities, helping us understand how he sustained himself across experiences of racialization, imperialism, war, and internment.
Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1892–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years in the Japanese internment camps, later repatriating to Japan, where he contributed to imperial war efforts by creating propaganda performances and performing revues for the occupying Allied Forces in Tokyo. Throughout, Ito continually invented stories of voyages made, artists befriended, performances seen, and political activities carried out–stories later dismissed as false. 

Fantasies of Ito Michio argues that these invented stories, unrealized projects, and questionable political affiliations are as fundamental to Ito’s career as his ”real” activities, helping us understand how he sustained himself across experiences of racialization, imperialism, war, and internment. Tara Rodman reveals a narrative of Ito’s life that foregrounds the fabricated and overlooked to highlight his involvement with Japanese artists, such as Yamada Kosaku and Ishii Baku, and global modernist movements. Rodman offers “fantasy” as a rubric for understanding how individuals such as Ito sustain themselves in periods of violent disruption and as a scholarly methodology for engaging the past.

Tara Rodman is Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27 illustrations
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-472-07683-3 / 0472076833
ISBN-13 978-0-472-07683-3 / 9780472076833
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