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Otaku : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Loaned to Another Library HN723.5 .A9513 2009
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
- Standardized Title:
- Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Subculture--Japan.
- Subculture.
- Popular culture--Japan.
- Popular culture.
- Japan.
- Japan--Civilization--1945-.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [English edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma
- Translators' introduction
- What is otaku culture?
- The otaku's pseudo-Japan
- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material
- Otaku and postmodernity
- Narrative consumption
- The grand nonnarrative
- Moe-elements
- Database consumption
- The simulacra and the database
- Snobbery and the fictional age
- The dissociated human
- The animal age
- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality
- Multiple personality.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816653515
- 0816653518
- 9780816653522
- 0816653526
- OCLC:
- 254528970
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