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    Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

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    Author(s)
    Workman, Travis
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    "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."
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32856
    Keywords
    korean history; japanese occupation; korean literature; colonial korea; imperial japan; essentialism; Anthropology; Empire of Japan; Multiculturalism; Proletariat
    DOI
    10.1525/luminos.9
    ISBN
    9780520964198
    OCN
    932330186
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.ucpress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Oakland, California, 2016
    Series
    Asia Pacific Modern,
    Classification
    Asian history
    Philosophy
    Society and culture: general
    Pages
    322
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Anthropology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology; Empire of Japan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan; Japan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan; Multiculturalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism; Proletariat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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