|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying
|
Buy Now
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,589
Discovery Miles 45 890
|
|
|
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and
academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the
debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing
literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "Suicide
Nation". This tendency causes common misconceptions about the
suicide phenomenon and its features. Aiming to redress the
situation, this book explores how the idea of suicide in Japan was
shaped, reinterpreted and reinvented from the 1900s to the 1980s.
Providing a timely contribution to the underexplored history of
suicide, it also adds to the current heated debates on the
contemporary way we organize our thoughts on life and death, health
and wealth, on the value of the individual, and on gender. The book
explores the genealogy and development of modern suicide in Japan
by examining the ways in which beliefs about the nation's
character, historical views of suicide, and the cultural
legitimation of voluntary death acted to influence even the
scientific conceptualization of suicide in Japan. It thus unveils
the way in which the language on suicide was transformed throughout
the century according to the fluctuating relationship between
suicide and the discourse on national identity, and pathological
and cultural narratives. In doing so, it proposes a new path to
understanding the norms and mechanisms of the process of the
conceptualization of suicide itself. Filling in a critical gap in
three particular fields of historical study: the history of
suicide, the history of death, and the cultural history of
twentieth century Japan, it will be of great interest to students
and scholars of Japanese Studies and Japanese History.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
