Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)

ISBN: 0415235219

Author: Iida, Yumiko

Condition: New

This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity.This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.