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Pages: 312

Published: July 1989

Editors: Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian

Contributors: Masao Miyoshi, Tetsuo Najita, Marilyn Ivy, Isozaki Arata, Naoki Sakai, J. Victor Koschmann, Norma Field, Oe Kenzaburo, Alan Wolfe, Brett de Bary, Karatani Kojin, Asada Akira, Stephen Melville, Harry Harootunian

Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This work provides a unique view of a society in transition and confronting, like its models in the West, the problems induced by the introduction of new forms of knowledge, modes of production, and social relationships.

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Introduction / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian vii

Note on Japanese Names xxii

On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita 3

Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy 21

Of City, Nation, and Style / Isozaki Arata 47

Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies / H. D. Harootunian 63

Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism / Naoki Sakai 93

Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity / J. Victor Koschmann 123

Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi 143

Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere / Norma Field 169

Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō 189

Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? / Alan Wolfe 215

Karatani Kōjin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature / Brett De Bary 235

Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale / Asada Akira 273

Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop / Stephen Melville 279

Glossary 289

Notes on Contributors 297

Index 299

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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-0896-6 / eISBN: 978-0-8223-8155-6 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381556

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