LEADER 03888nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910456801303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53736-9 010 $a9786612537363 010 $a0-226-38834-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226388342 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007457 035 $a(EBL)485970 035 $a(OCoLC)593240114 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10282100 035 $a(PQKB)11266726 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485970 035 $a(DE-B1597)535749 035 $a(OCoLC)847370479 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226388342 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366801 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253736 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007457 100 $a19941007d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiscourses of the vanishing$b[electronic resource] $emodernity, phantasm, Japan /$fMarilyn Ivy 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-38832-8 311 $a0-226-38833-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One. National-Cultural Phantasms and Modernity's Losses -- $tChapter Two. Itineraries of Knowledge: Trans-Figuring Japan -- $tChapter Three. Ghastly Insufficiencies: Tono Monogatari and the Origins of Nativist Ethnology -- $tChapter Four. Narrative Returns, Uncanny Topographies -- $tChapter Five. Ghostly Epiphanies: Recalling the Dead on Mount Osore -- $tChapter Six. Theatrical Crossings, Capitalist Dreams -- $tAfterwords on Repetition and Redemption -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aJapan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties-and the attempts to contain them-as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater. 606 $aEthnology$zJapan 606 $aNational characteristics, Japanese 606 $aNationalism$zJapan 606 $aEthnocentrism$zJapan 606 $aCulture$xSemiotic models 607 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aNational characteristics, Japanese. 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aEthnocentrism 615 0$aCulture$xSemiotic models. 676 $a306.0952 676 $a306.4/0952 700 $aIvy$b Marilyn$0682809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456801303321 996 $aDiscourses of the vanishing$91261854 997 $aUNINA