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

Examines Japan's imperial power, capitalism, and modernization in the early 20th century in relation to disavowed subjects and peoples, reading Japanese modernity as distinct from Western models of postcolonialism and imperialism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Driscoll, Mark (Mark W.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cool(ie) Japan
  • Peripheral pimps
  • Empire in hysterics
  • Stubborn farmers and grotesqued Korea
  • Intertext I.A Korean is being beaten; I, a Japanese colonizer, am being beaten
  • All that's solid melts into modern girls and boys
  • Revolutionary pornography and the declining rate of pleasure
  • Intertext II. Neuropolitics sprouts fangs
  • The opiate of the (Chinese) people
  • Japanese lessons.