Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque : The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 /

In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Driscoll, Mark W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2010]
Temas:
Imperialism > Social aspects > Japan > History.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I Biopolitics
  • 1. Cool(ie) Japan
  • 2. Peripheral Pimps
  • 3. Empire in Hysterics
  • 4. Stubborn Farmers and Grotesqued Korea
  • Intertext I. A Korean is being beaten; I, a Japanese colonizer, am being beaten
  • Part II Neuropolitics
  • 5. All That's Solid Melts into Modern Girls and Boys
  • 6. Revolutionary Pornography and the Declining Rate of Pleasure
  • Intertext II. Neuropolitics Sprouts Fangs
  • Part III Necropolitics
  • 7. The Opiate of the (Chinese) People
  • 8. Japanese Lessons
  • Conclusion: Bare Labor and the Empire of the Living Dead
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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