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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136290303321

Autore

Workman Travis <1979->

Titolo

Imperial Genus : The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan / / Travis Workman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-520-96419-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Asia Pacific modern ; ; 14

Disciplina

951.9/03

Soggetti

Japanese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Korean literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Essentialism (Philosophy)

Korea Colonial influence

Japan Politics and government 1912-1945

Japan Cultural policy History 20th century

Korea History Japanese occupation, 1910-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainly between the transcendental and the empirical, the



universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is both a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure."--Provided by publisher.