"The bulk of the text of this book [12 chapters] was previously published as a special issue of the journal South Atlantic quarterly,... published 2001"--E-CIP data view. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Angelus novus in millennial Japan / Sabu Kohso. The university and the "global economy" : the cases of the United States and Japan / Masao Miyoshi -- University, disciplines, national identity : why is there no film studies in Japan? / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Japan's long postwar : the trick of memory and the ruse of history / Harry Harootunian -- National subjectivity and the uses of atonement in the age of recession / J. Victor Koschmann -- "Give me Japan and nothing else!" : postcoloniality, identity, and the traces of colonialism / Leo Ching -- "You Asians" : on the historical role of the West and Asia binary / Naoki Sakai -- Revenge and recapitation in recessionary Japan / Marilyn Ivy -- The "wild child" of 1990s Japan / Andrea G. Arai -- The rise and fall of maternal society : gender, labor, and capital in contemporary Japan / Tomiko Yoda -- Representation, reality culture, and global capitalism in Japan / Eric Cazdyn -- Monsieur le capital and Madame la terre do their ghost-dance : globalization and the nation-state / Yutaka Nagahara -- New-age fetishes, monsters, and friends : Pokémon capitalism at the millennium / Anne Allison -- Otaku movement / Thomas LaMarre -- A drifting world fair : cultural politics of environment in the local/global context of contemporary Japan / Yoshimi Shunya -- Angelus novus in millennial Japan / Sabu Kohso.
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