Deconstructing Nationality
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Overview
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 Kōtarō; 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781885445346
- ISBN-10: 1885445342
- Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.34 x 0.87 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.02 pounds
- Page Count: 276
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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