Imperial Genus : The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan / Travis Workman.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Asia Pacific Modern ; 14Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)Content type: - text
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- 9780520964198
- Essentialism (Philosophy)
- Essentialism (Philosophy)
- Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Korean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- HISTORY / Asia / Korea
- asian studies
- asian
- colonial governmentality
- colonial korea
- cultural policy
- cultural principles
- early 20th century korea
- east asia
- empire and colony in korea
- history of korea
- human generality
- humanity in korea
- imperial nationalism
- japan
- japanese empire
- japanese korea
- japanese occupation of korea
- japans cultural policy
- korea
- modern humanist thinking
- modern korea
- modernity in colonial korea
- world culture
- 951.9/03 23
- DS916.54 .W67 2016
- DS916.54 .W67 2016
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Culturalism and the Human -- 2. The Colony and the World: Nation, Poetics, and Biopolitics in Yi Kwang-su -- 3. Labor and Bildung in Marxism and the Proletarian Arts -- 4. Other Chronotopes in Realist Literature -- 5. World History and Minor Literature -- 6. Modernism without a Home: Cinematic Literature, Colonial Architecture, and Yi Sang's Poetics -- Notes -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE: Columbia University
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainty between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure.
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