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Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan / Travis Workman.

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"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...

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Main Author: Workman, Travis, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Asia Pacific modern ; 14.
Subjects:
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Korean literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Japan > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Japan > Politics and government > 1912-1945.
Korea > Colonial influence.
Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
Colonial influence.
Cultural policy.
Japanese literature.
Korean literature.
Politics and government.
Japan.
Korea.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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