Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific)

by Gerald Figal (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $35.30

  Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).