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Discourses of the vanishing: modernity, phantasm, Japan

Marilyn Ivy
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Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995
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Summary:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. National-Cultural Phantasms and Modernity's Losses
  • 2. Itineraries of Knowledge: Trans-figuring Japan
  • 3. Ghastly Insufficiencies: Tono Monogatari and the Origins of Nativist Ethnology
  • 4. Narrative Returns, Uncanny Topographies
  • 5. Ghostly Epiphanies: Recalling the Dead on Mount Osore
  • 6. Theatrical Crossings, Capitalist Dreams
  • Afterwords on Repetition and Redemption.
Author/Creator:
Ivy, Marilyn
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Discourses of the vanishing: modernity, phantasm, Japan [by Ivy, M.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Discourses of the vanishing [by Ivy, M.] (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995 — ISBN 0226388328; LCCN 94040579)
Subjects:
Ethnology — Japan
National characteristics, Japanese
Nationalism — Japan
Ethnocentrism — Japan
Culture — Semiotic models
Japan — Social life and customs
Genres:
Bibliographies
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
DS830 .I89 1995eb
ISBNs:
9780226388342 (electronic bk.)
0226388344 (electronic bk.)
0226388328 (cloth) [Invalid]
9780226388328 (cloth) [Invalid]
0226388336 (paper) [Invalid]
9780226388335 (paper) [Invalid]
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
94040579 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
593240114
Other Control Numbers:
EBC485970 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3173183