Absolute erotic, absolute grotesque
Subtitle: the living, dead, and undead in Japan's imperialism, 1895-1945
By: Mark Driscoll.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780822347408; 9780822347613
Subjects: Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1912-1945; Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945; China -- History -- 1928-1937; Manchuria (China) -- History -- 1931-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cool(ie) Japan; title: Peripheral pimps; title: Empire in hysterics; title: Stubborn farmers and grotesqued Korea; title: Intertext I. A Korean is being beaten; I, a Japanese colonizer, am being beaten; title: All that's solid melts into modern girls and boys; title: Revolutionary pornography and the declining rate of pleasure; title: Intertext II. Neuropolitics sprouts fangs; title: The opiate of the (Chinese) people; title: Japanese lessons.