Postmodernism and Japan / Edition 1

by Masao Miyoshi

Overview

Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western "enlightenment" wealth and power. This work provides a unique view of a society in transition and confronting, like its models in the West, the problems induced by the introduction of new forms of knowledge, modes of production, and social relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822308966
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	07/27/1989
Series:	Post-Contemporary Interventions Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Introduction / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian vii

Note on Japanese Names xxii

On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita 3

Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy 21

Of City, Nation, and Style / Isozaki Arata 47

Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies / H. D. Harootunian 63

Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism / Naoki Sakai 93

Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity / J. Victor Koschmann 123

Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi 143

Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere / Norma Field 169

Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō 189

Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? / Alan Wolfe 215

Karatani Kōjin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature / Brett De Bary 235

Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale / Asada Akira 273

Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop / Stephen Melville 279

Glossary 289

Notes on Contributors 297

Index 299

Editorial Reviews

"An important contribution. . . . The content of the contributions is of uniformly high caliber, raising a host of provocative issues such as the East-West confrontation in the delineation of the premodern-modern-postmodern dialectic."
--Yoshio Iwamoto, "World Literature Today"

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