Ikuho Amano

Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan

Dreams of the Bubble Economy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the 'Bubble-era' of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032287287
• ISBN-10: 1032287284
• Artikelnr.: 71238026

Autorenporträt

Ikuho Amano is Associate Professor of Japanese at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism 1. Dreams of Surplus: The
Age of Self-Conscious Consumption 2. You Are What You Buy: Consumer
Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy 3. The Age of Festivity:
Women's Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury 4. An Irony of the
Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen 5. Affective
Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy 6. Malaise of
Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy 7. The Bubble Economy
as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment Epilogue: Toward the Age of
Post-Bubble Consumerism