Deconstructing Nationality

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885445245
• ISBN13: 9781885445247
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher