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  • Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

    A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Dawn That Never Comes

    Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan.Analyzing ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Fictional Commons

    Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

    Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955

    Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Structure of World History

    From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange

    Traducido por Michael K. Bourdaghs ...
    In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Sound Alignments

    Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

    In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, ... Leer más

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  • The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52

    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ... Leer más

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    de Andrew Cole ...
    Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own ... Leer más

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  • Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

    Edición de Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan.Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies ... Leer más

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  • Resounding Afro Asia

    Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration

    Series series American Musicspheres
    Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four ... Leer más

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