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1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Strategies of containment and their aporia -- Parody and history in late Tokugawa culture -- Comic realism: a strategy of inversion -- Grotesque realism: a strategy of chaos -- Reconfiguring the body in a modernizing Japan. |
| Summary |
"In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)--including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy. Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo's cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era--the Meiji period--that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan's history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imaginationprovides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation--and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Arts -- Political aspects. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Popular culture -- Government policy -- Japan -- History.
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Popular culture. |
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Government policy. |
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Human body in popular culture -- Political aspects -- Japan.
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Human body in popular culture. |
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Human body -- Political aspects -- Japan.
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Human body -- Political aspects. |
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Japan -- Cultural policy -- History -- 19th century.
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Cultural policy. |
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Kabuki -- Government policy -- Japan -- History.
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Kabuki. |
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Japanese wit and humor -- Political aspects.
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Japanese wit and humor. |
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1600-1868.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1868 |
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1600-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Kabuki. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hirano, Katsuya. Politics of dialogic imagination 9780226060422 (DLC) 2013006823 (OCoLC)840927679 |
| ISBN |
9780226060736 (electronic book) |
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022606073X (electronic book) |
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9780226060422 (cloth) |
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022606042X (cloth) |
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9780226060569 (paperback) |
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022606056X (paperback) |
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