Free Download Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, "Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces"
English | 2015 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0804795894, 0804794103 | PDF | 10,2 mb
Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a propaganda tool? Or were they like the Japanese, who, including the soldiers, did not realize when the state told them to fall like cherry blossoms, it meant their deaths?
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