Learning places
Subtitle: the afterlives of area studies
By: edited by Masao Miyoshi & Harry Harootunian.
Contributors: Miyoshi, Masao.; Harootunian, Harry D., 1929-
Series: Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society; Asia-Pacific.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Area studies -- United States.; Area studies.; Asia -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the "afterlife" of area studies; title: Ivory tower in escrow / Masao Miyoshi; title: Andō Shōeki : "the forgotten thinker" in Japanese history / Tetsuo Najita; title: Objectivism and eradication of critique in Japanese history / Stefan Tanaka; title: Theory, area studies, cultural studies : issues of pedagogy in multiculturalism / Rey Chow; title: Signs of our times : a discussion of Homi Bhabha's The location of culture / Benita Parry; title: Postcoloniality's unconscious/area studies' desire / H.D. Harootunian; title: Asian exclusion acts / Sylvia Yanagisako; title: Areas, disciplines, and ethnicity / Richard H. Okada; title: Can American studies be area studies / Paul A. Bové; title: Imagining "Asia-Pacific" today : forgetting colonialism in the magical free markets of the American Pacific / Rob Wilson; title: Boundary displacement : the state, the foundations, and area studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce S. Cumings; title: The disappearance of modern Japan : Japan and social science / Bernard S. Silberman; title: Bad karma in Asia / Moss Roberts; title: From politics to culture : modern Japanese literary studies in the age of cultural studies / James A. Fujii; title: Questions of Japanese cinema : disciplinary boundaries and invention of scholarly object / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.