Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses tothe late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of US territorial expansion into the Pacific. INDICE: Introduction The Ansei Treaties and the Specter of Imperialism - John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly and Imperial Domesticity - The Science of Making Men: Moral Fitness for Global Competition - Imperial Aesthetics and the State in Meiji Japan - Aesthetics and the Moral Capital of the Family State - Liberal Governmentality and Melodramatic Resistance in Ozaki Koyo's Konjiki yasha - Haga Yaichi's Institution of Classical Japanese Literature: National Community, Governmentality, and Colonial Domesticity
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61922-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés