Tropics of Savagery

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

• 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

"Tierney has demonstrated adequately an insightful argument sustaining the similarity between the experiences of non-Western and Western colonization." Bltn Of The Institute Of Chinese Literature & Philosophy "An invaluable window through which one can appreciate wide-ranging experiences and interpretations of colonialism in prewar and wartime Japan." World History Connected