Spotlight on Japan
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Spotlight on My Country (Crabt
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes basic facts about the people, culture, and geography of Japan.
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Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Spotlight on My Country (Crabt
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes basic facts about the people, culture, and geography of Japan.
Author: Kevin Quigley
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Manga Anthology,British and European comic fans are swiftly,embracing Manga, the unique Japanese graphic novel,art form. This new collection selects the best,from the Manga underground presenting material,from the leading artists that is unlikely to be,seen outside of Japan. Outrageous, mind-bending,and 'adult,' this is nihilistic humour at its very,best.
Author: Ronald P. Toby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 900439351X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.
Author: Marty Gitlin
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 168103414X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, a bow is most often taken by a performer at the end of a concert or play. But in Japan, a bow is the traditional gesture to greet another person. This country close-up teaches upper-elementary students Japanese customs and much more about the Asian island nation.
Author: William J. Tyler
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2008-01-04
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0824832426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemarkably little has been written on the subject of modernism in Japanese fiction. Until now there has been neither a comprehensive survey of Japanese modernist fiction nor an anthology of translations to provide a systematic introduction. Only recently have the terms "modernism" and "modernist" become part of the standard discourse in English on modern Japanese literature and doubts concerning their authenticity vis-a-vis Western European modernism remain. This anomaly is especially ironic in view of the decidedly modan prose crafted by such well-known Japanese writers as Kawabata Yasunari, Nagai Kafu, and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro. By contrast, scholars in the visual and fine arts, architecture, and poetry readily embraced modanizumu as a key concept for describing and analyzing Japanese culture in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume addresses this discrepancy by presenting in translation for the first time a collection of twenty-five stories and novellas representative of Japanese authors who worked in the modernist idiom from 1913 to 1938. Its prefatory materials provide a systematic overview of the literary movement’s salient features—anti-naturalism, cosmopolitanism, the concept of the double self, and actionism—and describe how modanizumu evolved from its early "jagged edges" into a sophisticated yet popular expression of Japanese urban life in the first half of the twentieth century. The modanist style, characterized by youthful exuberance, a tongue-in-cheek tone, and narrative techniques like superimposition, is amply illustrated. Modanizumu introduces faces altogether new or relatively unknown: Abe Tomoji, Kajii Motojiro, Murayama Kaita, Osaki Midori, Tachibana Sotoo, Takeda Rintaro, Tani Joji, Yoshiyuki Eisuke, and Yumeno Kyusaku. It also revisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. Key works that it culls from the modernist repertoire include Funahashi Seiichi’s Diving, Hagiwara Sakutaro’s "Town of Cats," Ito Sei’s Streets of Fiendish Ghosts, and Kawabata’s film scenario Page of Madness. This volume moves beyond conventional views to place this important movement in Japanese fiction within a global context: an indigenous expression born of the fission of local creativity and the fusion of cross-cultural interaction.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778734505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the North American country of Canada.
Author: Akemi Johnson
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1620973324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.
Author: Robin Johnson
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778734550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the history, land, and people of India.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Spotlight on My Country (Crabt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpotlight on Italy introduces children to a country that has influenced the world throughout history. Children will be taken on a tour of the country from the towering Alps to the sandy beaches of the Mediterranean islands. The daily lives of modern Italians is also presented along with their customs and traditions.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Spotlight on My Country (Crabt
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the geography, animals, history, people and customs of Egypt.