Primitive selves : Koreana in the Japanese colonial gaze, 1910-1945
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Primitive selves : Koreana in the Japanese colonial gaze, 1910-1945
（Colonialisms, 5）
University of California Press, c2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 235-256
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost-including communal living and social solidarity - which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze - folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage - became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. A Long Engagement 2. Ethnography as Self-Reflection: Japanese Anthropology in Colonial Korea 3. Curating Koreana: The Management of Culture in Colonial Korea 4. The First K-Wave: Koreaphilia in Imperial Japanese Popular Culture Epilogue: Postcolonial Valorizations Notes Bibliography Index
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