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Imperial Genus - (Asia Pacific Modern) by Travis Workman (Paperback)

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  • A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs.
  • About the Author: Travis Workman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
  • 322 Pages
  • History, Asia
  • Series Name: Asia Pacific Modern

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"aImperial 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 uncertainly 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 both 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."--Provided by publisher.



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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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.



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"Imperial Genus is an expansive and erudite study of Culturalism, Marxism, and Japanophone discourses across colonial Korea and imperial Japan. Nothing exists in Korean studies that is remotely close to the breadth and depth of the scholarship and theoretical sophistication in Travis Workman's book. It offers three related investigations: the philosophical substrata of modern thought and culture in the colony and Japan proper, their ideological underpinnings and implications, and a thorough reinterpretation of the colonial Korean literary canon from these perspectives."--Jin-kyung Lee, author of Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea

"Travis Workman's compelling arguments take as their point of departure the notion of genus-being. Workman dispenses once and for all with the colonizer/colonized binary, demonstrating brilliantly how intellectuals associated with different movements in both Japan and Korea grapple with the meaning of the human itself as they attempt to think through capitalist modernity."--Theodore Hughes, author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
"Travis Workman's project is no less than a rewriting of modern intellectual history as a site of translation. An analysis that powerfully demonstrates the possibilities for a revitalized comparativism opened up by postcolonial theory and the critique of Orientalism, it will be essential reading for a new generation of scholars of East Asia."--Brett de Bary, Professor, Cornell University



About the Author



Travis Workman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.04 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 322
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Asia
Series Title: Asia Pacific Modern
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: Korea
Format: Paperback
Author: Travis Workman
Language: English
Street Date: November 30, 2015
TCIN: 94360388
UPC: 9780520289598
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-7716
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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