The trans-Pacific imagination : rethinking boundary, culture and society / / editors, Naoki Sakai, Hyon Joo Yoo

• Pubblicazione: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 950
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism and the arts; Nationalism - East Asia - History
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia Civilization
• Altri autori: SakaiNaoki <1946-> YooHyon Joo
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; CONTENTS; Contributors; Copyrighted Essays; Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Imagination - Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society Naoki Sakai and Hyon Joo Yoo; National Sovereignty and the Regime of International Law; Postcoloniality and Nationality; Asia: A Marker of Civilizational Transference; Complicity and the Global Sovereign State; Victimhood Nationalism and the Crisis of Masculinity; History Textbook and Shame; Notes; Towards a Transnational History of Victimhood Nationalism: On the Trans-Pacific Space Jie-Hyun Lim; The Transnationality of Victimhood Nationalism ; From Heroes to Victims: Hereditary Victimhood in KoreaFrom Victimizers to Victims: Apologies for Memory in Japan; Responsibility: From Whom to Whom?; Notes; The Trans-Pacific Migrant and Area Studies Lisa Lowe; Notes; Imprinting the Empire: Western Artists and the Persistence of Colonialism in East Asia Tessa Morris-Suzuki; The Art of Occupation; Four Artists and the Japanese Empire; Floating Worlds: The Japanese Empire and the Making of the "Far East"; Tourism, Imperialism and the Multi-Focal Eye; Politics Cut Out; The Persistence of Empire; Notes ; The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: The Battle of Gazes at and from Okinawa Ikuo Shinjou"They Rejected Me Plainly": Ôe Kenzaburô's Okinawa Note; The Japanese Subject Formation and the Status of the Homoerotics; Notes; Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation: Gender and Trans-Pacific Empire of the United States and Japan Annmaria Shimabuku; Opposite Views of Security Behind a Unified Front of Protest; The State as the "Coldest of Cold Monsters"; Feminist Critique of the Military Institution; Biopower; Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation; The Tent Village of Garama ; ConclusionNotes; The Politics of Postcoloniality and the Literature of "Being-in-Japan" (Zainichi) Hyoduk Lee; Postcoloniality of Japan in the Asia-Pacific; What Is Zainichi Literature?; Zainichi Literature around 1970; Ethnicity/Class, Ethnicity/Gender; Perpetual "Postcolonial"; Notes; The Incurable Feminine: Women Without a Country in East Asian Cinema Hyon Joo Yoo; Antigone's Impossible Place; The Impossible Subject: Women Without a Country; What Does Woman without a Country Want?; Notes ; Inter-Asia Comparative Framework: Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea Soyoung KimFilmmaking as Postcolonial Archival Practice; Almost Life Like in The Puppet Master; Chihwas on as a Tale of Pre-Cinema; Flashbacks and a Good Ear (Singer); The Paradox of Postcolonial Archival Work; Notes; Postcolonial Hiroshima, Mon Amour: Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow Yuko Shibata; The Nexus Between Hiroshima and Nevers; Prewar Hiroshima as a Military City; The Collaboration Between France and Japan in French Indochina; Duras' Commitment to the French Empire ; The Othering of the Japanese Man
• Sommario/riassunto: This anthology critically re-examines and re-articulates the discursive boundary that binds the region called East Asia in order to produce Trans-Pacific Studies. Recognizing that the creation of regional boundaries depends on a new configuration of both inter- and intra-national power relations and the ideological constructs that generate historical, ideological, and cultural effects, this volume proposes that the term "trans-Pacific" be mobilized to complicate the phrase "East Asian" as the boundary of academic discipline and socio-cultural discourse. The anthology also examines the historic
• Titolo autorizzato: The trans-Pacific imagination
• ISBN: 1-280-66926-8; 9786613646194; 981-4324-14-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809111603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II