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In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture: Edited by Xiaobing Tang and Stephen Snyder

by Stephen Snyder, Xiaobing Tang. 227 pgs.

Contributors:

   Stephen Snyder, Xiaobing Tang

Publisher:

   Westview Press

Place of Publication:

  Boulder, CO  

Publication Year:

  1996

Subjects:

East Asia--Civilization--20th Century

	Contents
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction , Xiaobing Tang	1
1	General Nogi's Wife: Representations of Women in Narratives of Japanese Modernization , Sharalyn Orbaugh	7
2	Against Metaphor: Gender, Violence, and Decolonization in Korean Nationalist Literature , You-me Park	33
3	Writing Erratic Desire: Sexual Politics in Contemporary Chinese Fiction , Hu Ying	49
4	Two Murakamis and Marcel Proust: Memory as Form in Contemporary Japanese Fiction , Stephen Snyder	69
5	The Fractured Cinema of : The Discourse of the Nation in Sea of Blood , Kyung Hyun Kim	85
6	New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Contemporary China , Xiaobing Tang	107
7	Image, Information, Commodity: A Few Speculations on Japanese Televisual Culture , Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto	123
8	Cinema and the Public Sphere: The Films of Ōshima Nagisa , Wimal Dissanayake	139
9	Sexual DisOrientations: Homosexual Rights, East Asian Films, and Postmodern Postnationalism , Chris Berry	157
10	Looking Backward in the Age of Global Capital: Thoughts on History in Third World Cultural Criticism , Arif Dirlik	183
	Selected Bibliography	217
	About the Book	221
	About the Contributors	223
	Index	225

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