Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Note on Japanese Names xxi
5. On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan 1
6. Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern japan 21
7. Of City, Nation, and Style 47
8. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies 63
9. Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularlism 93
10. Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity 123
11. Against the Native Grain: The japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West 143
12. Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere 169
13. Japan's Dual Identity:A Writer's Dilemma 189
14. Suicideand the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? 215
15. Karatani Kojin's Oriyins of Modern japanese Literature 235
16. One Spirit, Two Nineteenth Centuries 259
17. Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism:A Fairy Tale 273
18. Picturing Japan:Reflections on the Workshop 279
19. Glossary 289
20. Notes on Contributors 297
21. Index 299