Learning places : the afterlives of area studies / edited by Masao Miyoshi & H.D. Harootunian.

Other author Miyoshi, Masao.
Other author Harootunian, Harry D., 1929-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionviii, 408 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAsia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific. ^A377689
Contents Ivory tower in escrow / Masao Miyoshi -- Andō Shōeki : "the forgotten thinker" in Japanese history / Tetsuo Najita -- Objectivism and eradication of critique in Japanese history / Stefan Tanaka -- Theory, area studies, cultural studies : issues of pedagogy in multiculturalism / Rey Chow -- Signs of our times : a discussion of Homi Bhabha's The location of culture / Benita Parry -- Postcoloniality's unconscious/area studies' desire / H.D. Harootunian -- Asian exclusion acts / Sylvia Yanagisako -- Areas, disciplines, and ethnicity / Richard H. Okada -- Can American studies be area studies? / Paul A. Bové -- Imagining "Asia-Pacific" today : forgetting colonialism in the magical free markets of the American Pacific / Rob Wilson -- Boundary displacement : the state, the foundations, and area studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings -- The disappearance of modern Japan : Japan and social science / Bernard S. Silberman -- Bad karma in Asia / Moss Roberts -- From politics to culture : modern Japanese literary studies in the age of cultural studies / James A. Fujii -- Questions of Japanese cinema : disciplinary boundaries and invention of scholarly object / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002004456
ISBN0822328267 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822328402 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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