Otaku Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
| Author/creator | Azuma, Hiroki, 1971- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | [English ed.] |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, |
| Description | xxix, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan. English |
| Contents | Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality. |
| General note | "Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso. |
| General note | Translated from the Japanese. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008040819 |
| ISBN | 9780816653515 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816653518 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816653522 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816653526 (pb : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |