Overview
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.
- | Author: Naoki Sakai
- | Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
- | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 276 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1885445245
- | ISBN-13: 9781885445247
