Deconstructing Nationality by Naoki Sakai HARDBACK 9781885445346

Deconstructing NationalityAuthor(s): Naoki Sakai, Brett Bary, Toshio Iyotani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University East Asia Program\nISBN-13: 9781885445346, 978-1885445346\nSynopsis\nHow can a post-national Japanese Studies be defined? How might the postwar myth of a monoethnic Japan be historicized? Can new forms of nationalism be effectively criticized by evoking a spirit of nationalist democracy? This book contains a series of groundbreaking essays by major Japanese and American scholars seeking to locate \""Japan\"" beyond the geographical and ideological boundaries established post-1945 and under the Cold War. Included are essays on such iconic cultural figures as Maruyama Masao and Takamura K?tar?; on the impact of colonialism on prewar theories of race, language, and multi-culturalism; on gender and nationalism; on the critique of culturalist notions of the \""native speaker\"" and \""mother tongue,\"" and on Asian nation.