In 1860, the empire of Japan sent 170 officials - samurai and bureaucrats, inspectors and spies, half a dozen teenagers and one Confucian physician - to tour the United States, the first such visit to America and the first trip anywhere abroad in two hundred years. Politics and curiosity, on both sides, mixed to create an amazing journey. Using ...
Here are two novels by Japan's Nobel Prize-winning author. In "Seventeen," a lost young man, raised in a country which falsifies its own history, is in the throes of becoming a right-wing activist and assassin. In "J," an increasingly isolated and psychotic youth takes up chikan, a game that involves sexually assaulting women on the crowded Tokyo ...
What is the connection between the United States' imbalance of trade with Japan and the imbalance of translation in the other direction? Between Western literary critics' estimates of Japanese fiction and Japanese politicians' "America bashing"? In this study, Masao Miyoshi adopts an off-centre perspective - one that restores the historical ...
Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.
Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In "Japan and the World," distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan--despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's ...
Under globalisation, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous re-examination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies were created in large part to supply ...
"Postmodernism and Japan" is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism - described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri - from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western "enlightened" wealth and power. Essays by Arata Isozaki and Kenzaburo Oe and an index have ...
Under globalisation, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous re-examination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies were created in large part to supply ...
The papers printed in this volume were all originally delivered at an academic conference at Duke University in 1994. They address various aspects of the growth of transnational politics and economics, arguing that globalization has had disastrous effects on culture and popular political movements across the world.
Roughly a decade has passed since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, and despite some intermittent signs of recovery, the nation's economic downturn that began in the early 1990s continues in the present. This special issue of "South Atlantic Quarterly," "Millennial Japan," "" was conceived as an attempt to take stock of the so-called Heisei ...
Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In "Japan and the World," distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan--despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's ...
Description: Berkeley 1979 1st University if California. Hardcover. Octavo, 232pp., color and monochrome illustrations, index, cloth. Fine in VG plus DJ. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 1991
Description: NF. Large paperback, very slight tanning to the top outer page-edge, else excellent condition, 266 pages plus eight pages of ads, "a special issue of Boundary 2" read more
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