ISBN:
9780226060736
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022606073X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (295 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of dialogic imagination
DDC:
306.095209034
Keywords:
Arts Political aspects
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History
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19th century
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Japan
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Popular culture Government policy
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History
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Japan
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Human body in popular culture Political aspects
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Japan
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Human body Political aspects
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Japan
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Kabuki Government policy
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History
;
Japan
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Japanese wit and humor Political aspects
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Popular culture Government policy
;
History
;
Human body in popular culture Political aspects
;
Human body Political aspects
;
Kabuki Government policy
;
History
;
Japanese wit and humor Political aspects
;
Arts Political aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Kabuki Government policy
;
History
;
Japanese wit and humor Political aspects
;
Human body Political aspects
;
Arts Political aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Popular culture Government policy
;
History
;
Human body in popular culture Political aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Arts ; Political aspects
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Cultural policy
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Human body ; Political aspects
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Politics and government
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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History
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Japan Cultural policy
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History
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19th century
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Japan History
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Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
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Japan Politics and government
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1600-1868
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Japan
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Japan Politics and government 1600-1868
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Japan Cultural policy 19th century
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History
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Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
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Japan Cultural policy 19th century
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History
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Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
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Japan Politics and government 1600-1868
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Japan
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)--including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy. Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo's cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era--the Meiji period--that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan's history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imaginationprovides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation--and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionStrategies of containment and their aporia -- Parody and history in late Tokugawa culture -- Comic realism: a strategy of inversion -- Grotesque realism: a strategy of chaos -- Reconfiguring the body in a modernizing Japan.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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