Mark W Driscoll

Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque

The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Japan's imperial power, capitalism, and modernization in the early 20th century in relation to disavowed subjects and peoples, reading Japanese modernity as distinct from Western models of postcolonialism and imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347408
• ISBN-10: 0822347407
• Artikelnr.: 30363875

Autorenporträt

Mark Driscoll is Associate Professor of Japanese and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor and translator of Katsuei Yuasa’s Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction 1
Part I. Biopolitics
1. Cool(ie) Japan 25
2. Peripheral Pimps 57
3. Empire in Hysterics 81
4. Stubborn Farmers and Grotesqued Korea 101
Intertext I. A Korean is being beaten; I, a Japanese colonizer, am being
beaten 119
Part II. Neuropolitics
5. All That's Solid Melts into Modern Girls and Boys 135
6. Revolutionary Pornography and the Declining Rate of Pleasure 161
Intertext II. Neuropolitics Sprouts Fangs 203
Part III. Necropolitics
7. The Opiate of the (Chinese) People 227
8. Japanese Lessons 263
Conclusion: Bare Labor and the Empire of the Leaving Dead 295
Notes 315
Bibliography 327
Index 345