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Deconstructing Nationality (Cornell East Asia)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Sakai, Naoki; De Bary, Brett; Toshio, Iyotani. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
How can a post-national Japanese Studies be defined? How might the postwar myth of a monoethnic Japan be historicized? Can new forms of nationalism be effectively criticized by evoking a spirit of nationalist democracy? This book contains a series of groundbreaking essays by major Japanese and American scholars seeking to locate "Japan" beyond the geographical and ideological boundaries established post-1945 and under the Cold War. Included are essays on such iconic cultural figures as Maruyama Masao and Takamura Kōtarō; on the impact of colonialism on prewar theories of race, language, and multi-culturalism; on gender and nationalism; on the critique of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781885445247
SKU
V9781885445247
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99-1
About Sakai
Naoki Sakai is professor of Japanese thought and comparative literature at Cornell University. His many publications in English and Japanese include, most recently, Translation and Subjectivity: On the Subject of Japan and Culturalism (1996), Shizan sareru Nihongo-Nihonjin (Stillbirth of the Japanese), 1996 and Specters of the West, a special issue of Traces: A Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation ... Read more
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