Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame Volume 5

by Robert Tierney

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520265785
• ISBN13: 9780520265783
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"