Research Catalog

Title

Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan / Travis Workman.

Author

Workman, Travis, 1979-

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

x, 307 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm

Summary

"Ímperial 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 uncertainly 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 both 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."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

• Asia Pacific modern ; 14
• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

• Asia Pacific modern ; 14.
• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subjects

• Japan
• Korea
• Japanese literature
• Korean literature
• Japan > Cultural policy > History > 20th century
• Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
• Japan > Politics and government > 1912-1945
• Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Japanese Occupation of Korea (1910-1945)
• History
• Essentialism (Philosophy)
• Colonial influence
• Korea > Colonial influence
• Cultural policy
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Korean literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Politics and government
• 1900 - 1999

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.

Contents

Culturalism and the human -- The colony and the world: nation, poetics, and biopolitics in Yi Kwang-Su -- Labor and culture in Marxism and the proletarian arts -- Other chronotopes in realist literature -- World history and minor literature -- Modernism without a home: cinematic literature, colonial architecture, and Yi sang's poetics.

Call Number

JFE 16-1427

ISBN

• 9780520289598
• 0520289595
• 9780520964198 (canceled/invalid)
• 0520964195 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015029804

OCLC

918986489

Author

Workman, Travis, 1979- author.

Title

Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan / Travis Workman.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asia Pacific modern ; 14

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Asia Pacific modern ; 14.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Research Call Number

JFE 16-1427