Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces

by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804794103
• ISBN13: 9780804794107
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"