Tropics of Savagery - The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26578-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

Reihe: Asia Pacific Modern

Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of “savagery” in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period--violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tierney, Robert Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From Taming Savages to Going Native: Self and Other on the Taiwan Aboriginal Frontier

2. Ethnography and Literature: Sat Haruo’s Colonial Journey to Taiwan

3. The Adventures of Momotar in the South Seas: Folklore, Colonial Policy, Parody

4. The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi

Conclusion: Cannibalism in Postwar Literature

Notes

Glossary of Japanese Terms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Thomas Tierney is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.