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 Kotaro; 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.
| ISBN: | 9781885445247 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2010 |
| Author: | Naoki Sakai, Brett Bary, Toshio Iyotani |
| Publisher: | Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 276 pages |
| Series: | Cornell East Asia Series |
| Genres: |
Asian history Nationalism |
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 Kotaro; 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.
Deconstructing Nationality features in the following genres: Asian history, Nationalism
Deconstructing Nationality is available in Paperback
Deconstructing Nationality was written by Naoki Sakai, Brett Bary, Toshio Iyotani and published by Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press
Deconstructing Nationality has 276 pages
Yes it is part of Cornell East Asia Series series
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