Re-inventing Japan: Nation, Culture, Identity

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Book Overview

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076560082X
• ISBN13: 9780765600820
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Introduction to Contemporary Debates

Tessa Morris-Suzuki offers a overview of recent scholarship regarding changing Japanese notions of nation, culture, race, gender, civilization and citizenship, with a particular and distinctive emphasis on the spatial and temporal dimensions of these concepts. Her writing is lucid and nuanced, and her treatment of these topics is both accessible to a general audience and of interest to specialists in the field.