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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals Hardcover - 2009
by Hiroki Azuma; Jonathan E. Abel (Translator); Shion Kono (Translator)
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- Title Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
- Author Hiroki Azuma; Jonathan E. Abel (Translator); Shion Kono (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition English ed.
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press
- Date 2009-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780816653515 / 0816653518
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - Civilization - 1945-, Subculture - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008040819
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.109
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Citations
- Choice, 08/01/2009, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 05/08/2009, Page 21
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Hardback. New. In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the nature of human behavior in the postmodern era. He traces otaku's ascendancy to the distorted conditions created in Japan by the country's phenomenal postwar modernization, its inability to come to terms with its defeat in the Second World War, and America's subsequent cultural invasion. More broadly, Azuma argues…
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