Yoda / Harootunian / Chow Japan After Japan

Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8860-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the transformations in Japanese politics, culture, and society since Japans recession of the early 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoda, Tomiko

Harootunian, Harry

Chow, Rey

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Program in Literature, and Department of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Construction of Japanese Modernity, published by Duke University Press.Harry Harootunian is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at New York University. His many books include Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (with Masao Miyoshi), also published by Duke University Press.