Deconstructing Nationality Contributor(s): Sakai, Naoki (Editor), de Bary, Brett (Editor), Iyotani, Toshio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1885445245 ISBN-13: 9781885445247 Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
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 |
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. |