Tropics of Savagery

The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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"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.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-05-20
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsia Pacific Modern
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520265783

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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