Imperial genus the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan
"Ímperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2016, [2016]©2016
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| Series: | Asia Pacific modern
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index
- Culturalism and the human
- The colony and the world: nation, poetics, and biopolitics in Yi Kwang-Su
- Labor and culture in Marxism and the proletarian arts
- Other chronotopes in realist literature
- World history and minor literature
- Modernism without a home: cinematic literature, colonial architecture, and Yi sang's poetics