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Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most “monstrous” body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.

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    A Hardback by Miri Nakamura

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 13/07/2015
      ISBN13: 9780674504325, 978-0674504325
      ISBN10: 0674504321
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      Book Synopsis
      Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most “monstrous” body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.

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