Ikuho Amano

Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Dreams of the Bubble Economy

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000832129
• Artikelnr.: 66982452

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