SAQ: the South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 87, Number 3 (Summer 1988). Postmodernism and Japan by Miyoshi, Massao (ed.); Hartootunian, H. D. (ed.); Najita, Tetsuo; Ivy, Marilyn; Sakai, Naoki; Koschmann, J. Victor; Field, Norma; Wolfe, Alan; De Bary, Brett; Köjin, Karatani; Akira, Asada; Melville, Stephen - 1988

Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear, darkened area at bottom edges. ; Contents: Miyoshi and Harootunian, Introduction. Najita, On culture and technology in postmodern Japan. Ivy, Critical texts, mass artifacts: the consumption of knowledge in postmodern Japan. Harootunian, Visible discourses/invisible ideologies. Sakai, Modernity and its critique: the problem of univrsalism and particularism. Koschmann, Maruyama and its critique: the problem of universalism and particularism. Koschmann, Maruyama Masao and the incomplete project of modernity. Miyoshi, Against the native grain: the Japanese novel and the "postmodern" West. Field, Somehow: the postmodern as atmosphere. Wolfe, Suicide and the Japanese postmodern: a postnarrative paradigm? De Bary, Karatani Köjin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Köjin, One spirit, two nineteenth centuries. Akira, Infantile capitalism and Japan's postmodernism: a fairy tale. Melville, Picturing Japan: reflection on the workshop. ; 9.0" tall; 265 pages.