In Japan in the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan - despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market - is caught in a complex dependency with the Untied States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international politics, society, and culture.
In Japan in the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan - despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market - is caught in a complex dependency with the Untied States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international politics, society, and culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the Univesity of California, San Diego. He is coeditor, with Fredric Jameson, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press. H. D. Harootunian is Director of the Program in East Asian Studies at New York University.
Inhaltsangabe
Japan in the World / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian 1 The World Japan's Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective / Tetsuo Najita 13 The Prussia of the East? / Perry Anderson 31 Racism and the State: The Coming Crisis of U.S.-Japanese Relations / Eqbal Ahmad 40 "Past Experience, If Not Forgotten, Is a Guide to the Future": or, What Is in a Text? The Politics of History in Chinese-Japanese Relations / Arif Dirlik 49 Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900–1950 / Bruce Cumings 79 Society Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan / Miriam Silverberg 115 The Spirit of Productivity: Workplace Discourse on Culture and Economics in Japan / Christena Turner 144 Culture The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation / Kazuo Isiguro and Eo Kenzaburo 163 Soseki and Western Modernism / Fredric R. Jameson 177 America's Japan/Japan's Japan / H. D. Harootunian 186 In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being / Leslie Pincus 222 Return to the West/Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsuro's Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity / Naoki Sakai 237 The Invention of English Literature in Japan / Masao Miyoshi 271 Theory's Imaginal Other: American Encounters with South Korea and Japan / Rob Wilson 316 The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 338 Index 355 Contributors 363
Japan in the World / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian 1 The World Japan's Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective / Tetsuo Najita 13 The Prussia of the East? / Perry Anderson 31 Racism and the State: The Coming Crisis of U.S.-Japanese Relations / Eqbal Ahmad 40 "Past Experience, If Not Forgotten, Is a Guide to the Future": or, What Is in a Text? The Politics of History in Chinese-Japanese Relations / Arif Dirlik 49 Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900–1950 / Bruce Cumings 79 Society Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan / Miriam Silverberg 115 The Spirit of Productivity: Workplace Discourse on Culture and Economics in Japan / Christena Turner 144 Culture The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation / Kazuo Isiguro and Eo Kenzaburo 163 Soseki and Western Modernism / Fredric R. Jameson 177 America's Japan/Japan's Japan / H. D. Harootunian 186 In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being / Leslie Pincus 222 Return to the West/Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsuro's Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity / Naoki Sakai 237 The Invention of English Literature in Japan / Masao Miyoshi 271 Theory's Imaginal Other: American Encounters with South Korea and Japan / Rob Wilson 316 The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto 338 Index 355 Contributors 363
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
