Tropics of Savagery

The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

AvRobert Thomas Tierney

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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"Tropics of Savagery" is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period - violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asia Pacific Modern
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520265783

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Robert Thomas Tierney is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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"Tierney has demonstrated adequately an insightful argument sustaining the similarity between the experiences of non-Western and Western colonization." Bltn Of The Institute Of Chinese Literature & Philosophy "An invaluable window through which one can appreciate wide-ranging experiences and interpretations of colonialism in prewar and wartime Japan." World History Connected

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. From Taming Savages to Going Native: Self and Other on the Taiwan Aboriginal Frontier 2. Ethnography and Literature: Sat Haruo's Colonial Journey to Taiwan 3. The Adventures of Momotar in the South Seas: Folklore, Colonial Policy, Parody 4. The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi Conclusion: Cannibalism in Postwar Literature Notes Glossary of Japanese Terms Bibliography Index

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