Tropics of Savagery : The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame Hardback
by Robert Thomas Tierney
Part of the Asia Pacific Modern series
Hardback
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"Tropics of Savagery" is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture.
Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized.
By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period - violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:20/05/2010
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- ISBN:9780520265783
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:20/05/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520265783
