| Deconstructing Nationality Contributor(s): Sakai, Naoki (Editor), de Bary, Brett (Editor), Iyotani, Toshio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1885445342 ISBN-13: 9781885445346 Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 320.54 |
| LCCN: 2005922990 |
| Series: Cornell East Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.34" W x 8.7" (1.02 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |
