| Description |
1 online resource (x, 307 pages). |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Asia Pacific modern ; 14
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Asia Pacific modern ; 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Culturalism and the human -- Colony and the world: nation, poetics, and biopolitics in Yi Kwang-Su -- Labor and culture in Marxism and the proletarian arts -- Other chronotopes in realist literature -- World history and minor literature -- Modernism without a home: cinematic literature, colonial architecture, and Yi sang's poetics. |
| Summary |
"Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainly between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is both a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Japanese Occupation of Korea (Korea : 1910-1945) |
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Essentialism (Philosophy)
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Essentialism (Philosophy) |
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Korean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Korean literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Japanese literature. |
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Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
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Japan -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century.
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Japan. |
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Cultural policy. |
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History. |
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1912-1945.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1912-1945 |
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Korea -- Colonial influence.
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Korea. |
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Colonial influence. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Workman, Travis, 1979- Imperial genus. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520289598 (DLC) 2015029804 (OCoLC)918986489 |
| ISBN |
9780520964198 (electronic book) |
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0520964195 (electronic book) |
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9780520289598 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520289595 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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