Tropics of Savagery ：The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame ( Asia Pacific Modern )

Publication subTitle ：The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

Publication series ：Asia Pacific Modern

Author： Tierney > Robert Thomas  

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780520947665

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520265783

Subject： K313.4 Modern History (1868 ~)

Keyword： 亚洲史

Language： ENG

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Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period--violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From Taming Savages to Going Native: Self and Other on the Taiwan Aboriginal Frontier

2. Ethnography and literature: Sato Haruo’s colonial Journey to Taiwan

3. The Adventures of Momotaro in the South Seas: Folklore, Colonial Policy, Parody

4. The colonial eyeglasses of nakajima Atsushi

Conclusion: Cannibalism in Postwar Literature

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