Japan After Japan - Social and Cultural Life From the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian, eds. Klappentext The cultural transformations in Japan from the bursting of the bubble economy to the present. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the transformations in Japanese politics, culture, and society since Japan s recession of the early 1990s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Harry Harootunian and Tomiko Yoda 1 A Roadmap to Millennial Japan / Tomiko Yoda 16 The University and the “Global Economy”: The Cases of the United States and Japan / Masao Miyoshi 54 The University, Disciplines, National Identity: Why Is There No Film Studies in Japan? / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 81 Japan’s Long Postwar: The Trick of Memory and the Ruse of History / Harry Harootunian 98 National Subjectivity and the Uses of Atonement in the Age of Recession / J. Victor Koschmann 122 “Give Me Japan and Nothing Else!”: Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces of Colonialism / Leo Ching 142 “You Asians”: On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary / Naoki Sakai 167 Revenge and Recapitation in Recessionary Japan / Marilyn Ivy 195 The “Wild Child” of 1990s Japan / Andrea G. Arai 216 The Rise and Fall of Maternal Society: Gender, Labor, and Capital in Contemporary Japan / Tomiko Yoda 239 Representation, Reality Culture, and Global Capitalism in Japan / Eric Cazdyn 275 Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre Do Their Ghost-Dance: Globalization and the Nation-State / Yutaka Nagahara 299 New-Age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon Capitalism at the Millennium / Anne Allison 331 Otaku Movement / Thomas LaMarre 358 A Drifting World Fair: Cultural Politics of Environment in the Local/Global Context of Contemporary Japan / Yoshimi Shunya 395 Angelus Novus in Millennial Japan / Sabu Kohso 415 Contributors 439 Index 443

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yoda, Tomiko (EDT)/ Harootunian Yoda, Tomiko Harootunian Yoda
• Con la collaborazione di: Harry Harootunian (Editore), Harry D. Harootunian (Editore), Tomiko Yoda (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.10.2006
• EAN: 9780822337874
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3787-4
• Pagine: 456
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali