Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

Name: Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780226060569

ISBN-10: 022606056X

ISBN-13: 9780226060569

Edition: 2013

Authors: Katsuya Hirano

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Katsuya Hirano is associate professor of history at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca, New York.ï¿½



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Strategies 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


Notes


Bibliography


Index