Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained
outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes
determining global history and politics. In "Japan and the World,"
distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how
Japan--despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance
in the world's market--is caught in a complex dependency with the
United States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this
timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical
context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international
politics, society, and culture.
Among the many topics covered are: racism in U.S.-Japanese
relations; productivity and workplace discourse; Western cultural
hegemony; the constructing of a Japanese cultural history; and the
place of the novelist in today's world. Originally published as a
special issue of "boundary 2" (Fall 1991), this edition includes
four new essays on Japanese industrial revolution; the place of
English studies in Japan; how American cultural, historical, and
political discourse represented Japan and in turn how America's
version of Japan became Japan's version of itself; and an
"archaeology" of hegemonic relationships between Japan and America
and Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
"Contributors." Eqbal Ahmad, Perry Anderson, Bruce Cumings, Arif
Dirlik, H.D. Harootunian, Kazuo Ishuro, Fredric Jameson, Kojin
Karatani, Oe Kenzaburo, Masao Miyoshi, Tetsuo Najita, Leslie
Pincus, Naoki Sakai, Miriam Silverberg, Christena Turner, Rob
Wilson, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
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