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Pages: 312

Published: July 1989

Editors: Masao Miyoshi and Harry Harootunian

Contributors: Masao Miyoshi, Tetsuo Najita, Marilyn Ivy, Isozaki Arata, Naoki Sakai, J. Victor Koschmann, Norma Field, Oe Kenzaburo, Alan Wolfe, Brett de Bary, Karatani Kojin, Asada Akira, Stephen Melville, and Harry Harootunian

Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This work provides a unique view of a society in transition and confronting, like its models in the West, the problems induced by the introduction of new forms of knowledge, modes of production, and social relationships.

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Introduction / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian  vii
Note on Japanese Names  xxii
On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita  3
Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy  21
Of City, Nation, and Style / Isozaki Arata  47
Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies / H. D. Harootunian  63
Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism / Naoki Sakai  93
Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity / J. Victor Koschmann  123
Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi  143
Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere / Norma Field  169
Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō  189
Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? / Alan Wolfe  215
Karatani Kōjin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature / Brett De Bary  235
Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale / Asada Akira  273
Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop / Stephen Melville  279
Glossary  289
Notes on Contributors  297
Index  299
 

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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-0896-6 / eISBN: 978-0-8223-8155-6 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381556

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