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Deconstructing Nationality

Naoki Sakai editor Brett de Bary editor Toshio Iyotani editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:30th Apr '11

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How can a post-national Japanese Studies be defined? How might the postwar myth of a monoethnic Japan be historicized? Can new forms of nationalism be effectively criticized by evoking a spirit of nationalist democracy? This book contains a series of groundbreaking essays by major Japanese and American scholars seeking to locate "Japan" beyond the geographical and ideological boundaries established post-1945 and under the Cold War. Included are essays on such iconic cultural figures as Maruyama Masao and Takamura Kōtarō; on the impact of colonialism on prewar theories of race, language, and multi-culturalism; on gender and nationalism; on the critique of culturalist notions of the "native speaker" and "mother tongue," and on Asian nationalisms in the era of globalization.

ISBN: 9781885445346

Dimensions: 241mm x 165mm x 25mm

Weight: 907g

276 pages