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Japanese Cultural Anthropology

Deconstructing Nationality

Edited by Naoki SAKAI, Brett de BARY, and IYOTANI Toshio

No. 124, 2005 , 278 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-885445-24-7 (ISBN-10: 1-885445-24-5) paperback $29.00, ISBN-13: 978-1-885445-34-6 (ISBN-10: 1-885445-34-2) hardcover $62.00
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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 Kôtarô; 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.

The product of an international collaborative research project launched at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Cornell University in the early 1990s, this book is a companion volume to Total War and 'Modernization,' edited by Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann and Ryûichi Narita (Cornell EA Series No. 100).

Naoki Sakai is professor of Japanese thought and comparative literature at Cornell University. His many publications in English and Japanese include, most recently, Translation and Subjectivity: On the Subject of Japan and Culturalism (1996), Shizan sareru Nihongo-Nihonjin (Stillbirth of the Japanese), 1996 and Specters of the West, a special issue of Traces: A Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation (2001).

Brett de Bary is professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Cornell University. She has published essays and translations on postwar Japanese literature, feminism, and critical theory, including editing "Gender and Imperialism" (U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 1997). Recently, she has coedited with Meaghan Morris the Traces special issue "'Race' Panic and the Memory of Migration" (2002).

Toshio Iyotani is professor of international economics and Sociology at Hitotsubashi University. He is internationally known for his work on globalization, labor, and migration. His many publications include the edited collection Migrant Workers (Gaikokujin rôdôsharon, 1992), The Changing Global City (Henbô suru sekai toshi, 1993), and What is Globalization (Gurôbarizeeshion to wa nanika, 2002).

Companion CEAS Volume: Total War and 'Modernization,' edited by Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann and Ryûichi Narita (CEAS No. 100)

Cover illustration by Tomiyama Taeko.

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Preface to the English Edition Brett de Bary vii
Contributors xv

Introduction: Nationality and the Politics of the “Mother Tongue”
Naoki Sakai 1

I. NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM

Colonialism and the Sciences of the Tropical Zone: The Academic Analysis of Difference in the “Island Peoples” Tomiyama Ichirō 41
The Green of the Willow, the Flower’s Scarlet: Debate on Japanese
Emigrants and Korea under the Japanese Empire Oguma Eiji 61
The “Composition” of Empire: One Aspect of Cultural Imperialism in
Modern Japan Kawamura Minato 85
In Range of the Critique of Orientalism Kang Sangjung 113

II. NATIONALITY AND REPRESENTATION

Fragmented Woman, Fragmented Narrative Hirata Yumi 133
Memories of the “Dim-witted War”: The Case of Takamura Kōtarō
Nakano Toshio 161
Maruyama Masao’s “Japan” Hirotaka Kasai 185

III. CONTEMPORARY NATIONALITY

The Modern World System and the Nations of the Periphery
Iyotani Toshio, p. 211
Morisaki Kazue’s “Two Languages, Two Souls”: Language,
Communicability, and the National Subject, Brett de Bary, p. 229

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Brett de BARY Professor, Cornell University; modern Japanese literature and cultural theory

HIRATA Yumi Professor, Osaka University of Foreign Studies; modern Japanese literature

IYOTANI Toshio Professor, Hitotsubashi University; international economics and sociology

KANG Sangjung Professor, Tokyo University; political thought, social theory

KASAI Hirotaka Associate Professor, Tsuda College; political science

KAWAMURA Minato Professor, Hosei University; literary criticism

NAKANO Toshio Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; social theory, social thought

OGUMA Eiji Associate Professor, Keio University; sociology, history

Naoki SAKAI Professor, Cornell University; intellectual his-tory, Japanese literature, cultural theory

TOMIYAMA Ichirō Professor, Osaka University; historical sociology

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