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Deconstructing Nationality

Deconstructing Nationality - Cornell East Asia Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Cornell University East Asia Program

Book information

ISBN: 9781885445346
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University East Asia Program
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 907g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 25mm