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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important contribution... The content of the contributions is of uniformly high caliber, raising a host of provocative issues such as the East-West confrontation in the delineation of the premodern-modern-postmodern dialectic..." --Yoshio Iwamoto, World Literature Today
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian vii
Note on Japanese Names xxii
On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita 3
Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy 21
Of City, Nation, and Style / Isozaki Arata 47
Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies / H. D. Harootunian 63
Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism / Naoki Sakai 93
Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity / J. Victor Koschmann 123
Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi 143
Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere / Norma Field 169
Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō 189
Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? / Alan Wolfe 215
Karatani Kōjin's
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature / Brett De Bary 235
Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale / Asada Akira 273
Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop / Stephen Melville 279
Glossary 289
Notes on Contributors 297
Index 299
