《消逝的話語: 現代性，幻象，日本》南京:江蘇人民，2012
Discourses of the Vanishing:Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
Japan
today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated.
Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and
continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it
has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of
ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses
these anxieties—and the attempts to contain them—as she tracks what she
calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices
suspended at moments of impending disappearance.
Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.
Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.
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