Postmodernism and Japan

by Miyoshi, Masao; Harootunian, H. D.; Fish, Stanley Eugene; Jameson, Fredric

• ISBN13: 9780822308966
• ISBN10: 0822308967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-08-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Postmodernism and Japanis 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Masao Miyoshi
H. D. Harootunian
Note on Japanese Names	xxi
On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan	3	(18)
Tetsuo Najita
Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan	21	(26)
Marilyn Ivy
Of City, Nation, and Style	47	(16)
Isozaki Arata
Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies	63	(30)
H. D. Harootunian
Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularlism	93	(30)
Naoki Sakai
Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity	123	(20)
J. Victor Koschmann
Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the ``Postmodern'' West	143	(26)
Masao Miyoshi
Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere	169	(20)
Norma Field
Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma	189	(26)
Oe Kenzaburo
Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm?	215	(20)
Alan Wolfe
Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature	235	(24)
Brett De Bary
One Spirit, Two Nineteenth Centuries	259	(14)
Karatani Kojin
Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale	273	(6)
Asada Akira
Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop	279	(10)
Stephen Melville
Glossary	289	(8)
Notes on Contributors	297	(2)
Index	299