A01=Travis Workman
asian
asian studies
Author_Travis Workman
Category=NHF
colonial governmentality
colonial korea
cultural policy
cultural principles
early 20th century korea
east asia
empire and colony in korea
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eq_history
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history of korea
human generality
humanity in korea
imperial nationalism
japan
japanese empire
japanese korea
japanese occupation of korea
japans cultural policy
korea
modern humanist thinking
modern korea
modernity in colonial korea
world culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780520289598
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' open access publishing program for monographs. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainty between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure.
Travis Workman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
