Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan - Dreams of the Bubble Economy

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the 'Bubble-era' of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time.

List of contents

Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism 1. Dreams of Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption 2. You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy 3. The Age of Festivity: Women’s Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury 4. An Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen 5. Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy 6. Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy 7. The Bubble Economy as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism

About the author

Ikuho Amano is Associate Professor of Japanese at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA.

Summary

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the ‘Bubble-era’ of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time.

Product details

• Authors: Ikuho Amano, Amano Ikuho
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032287287
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228728-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, macroeconomics, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, General and world history, Literature: history and criticism