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Seeking the Self - Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan (Hardcover)
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Seeking the Self - Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Welten Ostasiens/Worlds of East Asia/Mondes de l'Extreme-Orient, 8
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This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to
Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the
essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly
reconstructed in relations to others. This particular self is
studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a
special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons.
The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in
which the author investigates the relationship between popular
media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a
historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan
since the country's modernisation period.
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