Imperial Genus : The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan /

"Ímperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation o...

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Main Author: Workman, Travis, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Culturalism and the human
  • The colony and the world: nation, poetics, and biopolitics in Yi Kwang-Su
  • Labor and culture in Marxism and the proletarian arts
  • Other chronotopes in realist literature
  • World history and minor literature
  • Modernism without a home: cinematic literature, colonial architecture, and Yi sang's poetics.