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Japan in the world / edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Relations.
- Japan.
- Japan--Foreign economic relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Japan.
- United States.
- Japan--Civilization--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan-despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market-is caught in a complex dependency with the United States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international politics,
- Contents:
- The World: Japan's Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective / Tetsuo Najita. The Prussia of the East? / Perry Anderson. Racism and the State: The Coming Crisis of U.S.-Japanese Relations / Eqbal Ahmad. "Past Experience, If Not Forgotten, Is a Guide to the Future"; or, What Is in a Text? The Politics of History in Chinese-Japanese Relations / Arif Dirlik. Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900-1950 / Bruce Cumings
- Society: Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan / Miriam Silverberg. The Spirit of Productivity: Workplace Discourse on Culture and Economics in Japan / Christena Turner
- Culture: The Novelist in Today's World, A Conversation / Kazuo Ishiguro and Oe Kenzaburo. Soseki and Western Modernism / Fredric R. Jameson. America's Japan / Japan's Japan / H. D. Harootunian. In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being / Leslie Pincus. Return to the West, Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsuro's Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity / Naoki Sakai. The Invention of English Literature in Japan / Masao Miyoshi. The Discursive Space of Modern Japan / Kojin Karatani. Theory's Imaginal Other: American Encounters with South Korea and Japan / Rob Wilson. The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-90426-4
- 9786612904264
- 0-8223-8180-X
- OCLC:
- 850214271
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