Title Tropics of savagery : the culture of Japanese empire in comparative frame / Robert Thomas Tierney.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 307 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Asia Pacific modern ; 5
	Asia Pacific modern ; 5.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	From taming savages to going native: self and other on the Taiwan Aboriginal frontier -- Ethnography and literature: Sato Haruo's colonial journey to Taiwan -- The adventures of Momotaro in the South Seas: folklore, colonial policy, parody -- The colonial eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi -- Cannibalism in postwar literature.
Summary	This is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. The author demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized.
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Subject	Japan -- Colonies -- History.
	Japan.
	Colonies.
	History.
	Imperialism -- History.
	Imperialism.
	Indigenous peoples -- History.
	Indigenous peoples.
	Indigenous peoples -- Public opinion.
	Indigenous peoples -- Public opinion.
	Public opinion -- Japan.
	Public opinion.
	Popular culture -- Japan -- History.
	Popular culture.
	Japanese literature -- History and criticism.
	Japanese literature.
	Colonies in literature.
	Colonies in literature.
	Imperialism in literature.
	Imperialism in literature.
	Indigenous peoples in literature.
	Indigenous peoples in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Tierney, Robert Thomas, 1953- Tropics of savagery. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520265783 (DLC) 2009049274 (OCoLC)473655264
ISBN	9780520947665 (electronic book)
	0520947665 (electronic book)
	1283277344
	9781283277341
	9780520265783
	0520265785

Title Tropics of savagery : the culture of Japanese empire in comparative frame / Robert Thomas Tierney.

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