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Ishikawa, Satomi. Seeking the Self: Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan. Worlds of East Asia. Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2007. Added by: joachim (5/8/10, 11:08 PM) Last edited by: joachim (5/8/10, 11:10 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-3-03-910874-9 BibTeX citation key: Ishikawa2007a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Chibi Maruko-chan", "Gomanizumu Sengen", "Shin Seiki Evangelion", Fandom, Identity, Japan, Manga, Popular culture Creators: Ishikawa Publisher: Peter Lang (Bern [etc.]) |
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This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons. The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since the country's modernisation period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgement 7 Introduction 9 Manga: a Historical Overview 10 Postwar Development: Manga as Commodity 13 Consumption as Self-articulation 17 Jiga: the Self in Japan 19 Theorising the Tenno System 26 Part I Ethnography 1 Consuming Commonality 31 1.1 The Comiket: a Venue for Manga 31 1.2 Otaku: a Category of the Japanese Person 37 1.3 Otaku: Generalisation of the Category 53 1.4 Tamagocchi: Resetting the World 58 2 Consuming Empathy 71 2.1 Shin Seiki Evangelion: Desparately Seeking the Self 71 2.2 Chibi Maruko-chan: Nostalgia for Given Relationships 84 2.3 Some Manga Genres for Adult Consumers: Historical Background 89 2.3.1 Ikuji Manga: Manga for Female Consumers 89 2.3.2 Manga for Office Workers 91 2.4 Gomanizumu Sengen: Speaking for ‘Us’ 98 Part II An Inquiry into Japan's Modernisation 3 Making a Japanese Individual – the 1970s and the '80s 115 3.1 Shinjinrui: Consuming Differences 116 3.2 Consuming as Becoming Independent: Women as Consumers 127 3.3 1989: The End of the Showa Period 137 4 From National to Cultural Japaneseness – the Postwar Period up to 1970 143 4.1 The Death of Mishima Yukio: Problematising Culture 144 4.2 Culturalisation: Transformed Everyday Life 155 4.3 Nihonjinron: a Mode of Culture 164 4.4 The Tenno as the Cultural Symbol 176 5 The Emergence of National Japaneseness – from the Meiji Period to 1945 183 5.1 Inventing the Myth 184 5.2 The Imperial Constitution and State Shinto 193 5.3 Ultra-Nationalism and Self-Exploration 197 Conclusion 217 List of Illustrations 221 List of Abbreviations 223 Glossary 225 Bibliography 229 Index 249 Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |