Discourses of the vanishing : modernity, phantasm, Japan /
Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, histor...
| Основен автор: | Ivy, Marilyn. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312174 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Discourses of the vanishing. |
| Резюме: |
Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties--and the attempts to contain them--as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompani. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226388342 0226388344 |