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Flowers That Kill : Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces, Hardback Book

Flowers That Kill : Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces Hardback

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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?Flowers That Kill proposes an entirely new theoretical understanding of the role of quotidian symbols and their political significance to understand how they lead people, if indirectly, to wars, violence, and even self-exclusion and self-destruction precisely because symbolic communication is full of ambiguity and opacity.

Using a broad comparative approach, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney illustrates how the aesthetic and multiple meanings of symbols, and at times symbols without images become possible sources for creating opacity which prevents people from recognizing the shifting meaning of the symbols.

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