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Deconstructing Nationality
Contributor(s): Sakai, Naoki (Editor), de Bary, Brett (Editor), Iyotani, Toshio (Editor)
ISBN: 1885445245     ISBN-13: 9781885445247
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
OUR PRICE:   $31.63  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - Japan
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism
Dewey: 952
LCCN: 2005922990
Series: Cornell East Asia
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.7" (0.75 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
 
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Publisher Description:
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 Kôtarô; on the impact of colonialism on prewar theories of race, language, and multi-culturalism; on gender and nationalism; on the critique of culturalist notions of the native speaker and mother tongue, and on Asian nationalisms in the era of globalization.