Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

Travis Workman

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2015

Imperial Genus

The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

Travis Workman

Volume 14 in the series Asia Pacific Modern

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520964198

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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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Workman Travis :

Travis Workman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Culturalism and the Human Open Access Download PDF	26
2. The Colony and the World: Nation, Poetics, and Biopolitics in Yi Kwang-su Open Access Download PDF	62
3. Labor and Bildung in Marxism and the Proletarian Arts Open Access Download PDF	98
4. Other Chronotopes in Realist Literature Open Access Download PDF	134
5. World History and Minor Literature Open Access Download PDF	167
6. Modernism without a Home: Cinematic Literature, Colonial Architecture, and Yi Sang’s Poetics Open Access Download PDF	213
Notes Open Access Download PDF	249
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	271
Selected Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	277
Index Open Access Download PDF	293
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE: Columbia University Open Access Download PDF	308

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
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Published: November 30, 2015
ISBN: 9780520964198