Imperial Genus The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan / Travis Workman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Workman, Travis, 1979- author.

Series:

Asia Pacific Modern Series

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Asia Pacific modern ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Korean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Korean literature.

Essentialism (Philosophy).

Korea--Colonial influence.

Korea.

Japan--Politics and government--1912-1945.

Japan.

Japan--Cultural policy--History--20th century.

Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press 2016

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

System Details:

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Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainty between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Culturalism and the Human

2. The Colony and the World: Nation, Poetics, and Biopolitics in Yi Kwang-su

3. Labor and Bildung in Marxism and the Proletarian Arts

4. Other Chronotopes in Realist Literature

5. World History and Minor Literature

6. Modernism without a Home: Cinematic Literature, Colonial Architecture, and Yi Sangs Poetics

Notes

Appendix

Selected Bibliography.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780520964198

0520964195

OCLC:

980972936

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access