Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The ‘‘Afterlife’’ of Area Studies 1
5. Ivory Tower in Escrow 19
6. Ando Shoeki—‘‘The Forgotten Thinker’’ in Japanese History 61
7. Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History 80
8. Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism 103
9. Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture 119
10. Postcoloniality’s Unconscious / Area Studies’ Desire 150
11. Asian Exclusion Acts 175
12. Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity 190
13. Can American Studies Be Area Studies? 206
14. Imagining ‘‘Asia-Pacific’’ Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific 231
15. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War 261
16. The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science 303
17. Bad Karma in Asia 321
18. From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies 344
19. Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object 368
20. Contributors 403
21. Index 405