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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tomiko Yoda; Harry D Harootunian |
ISBN: | 9780822388609 082238860X |
OCLC Number: | 1055251863 |
Notes: | "The bulk of the text of this book [12 chapters] was previously published as a special issue of the journal South Atlantic quarterly, ... published 2001"--E-CIP data view. |
Description: | 1 online resource (447 pages). |
Contents: | A roadmap to millennial Japan / Tomiko Yoda -- The university and the "global economy" : the cases of the United States and Japan / Masao Miyoshi -- University, disciplines, national identity : why is there no film studies in Japan? / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Japan's long postwar : the trick of memory and the ruse of history / Harry Harootunian -- National subjectivity and the uses of atonement in the age of recession / J. Victor Koschmann -- "Give me Japan and nothing else!" : postcoloniality, identity, and the traces of colonialism / Leo Ching -- "You Asians" : on the historical role of the West and Asia binary / Naoki Sakai -- Revenge and recapitation in recessionary Japan / Marilyn Ivy -- The "wild child" of 1990s Japan / Andrea G. Arai -- The rise and fall of maternal society : gender, labor, and capital in contemporary Japan / Tomiko Yoda -- Representation, reality culture, and global capitalism in Japan / Eric Cazdyn -- Monsieur le capital and Madame la terre do their ghost-dance : globalization and the nation-state / Yutaka Nagahara -- New-age fetishes, monsters, and friends : Pokémon capitalism at the millennium / Anne Allison -- Otaku movement / Thomas LaMarre -- A drifting world fair : cultural politics of environment in the local/global context of contemporary Japan / Yoshimi Shunya -- Angelus novus in millennial Japan / Sabu Kohso. |
Series Title: | Asia-Pacific. |
Responsibility: | edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian. |
Abstract:
The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country's economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan , scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the profound transformations in Japan since the early 1990s, providing complex analyses of a nation in transition, linking its present to its past and connecting local situations to global developments. Several of the essayists reflect on the politics of.
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