Learning places : the afterlives of area studies

Acknowledgments Introduction: The “Afterlife” of Area Studies Ivory Tower in Escrow / Masao Miyoshi Ando Shoeki - “The Forgotten Thinker” in Japanese History / Tetsuo Najita Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History / Stefan Tanaka Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism / Rey Chow Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture / Benita Parry Postcoloniality’s Unconscious / Area Studies’ Desire / H. D. Harootunian Asian Exclusion Acts / Sylvia Yanagisako Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity / Richard H. Okada Can American Studies Be Area Studies? / Paul A. Bové Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific / Rob Wilson Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science / Bernard S. Silberman Bad Karma in Asia / Moss Roberts From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies / James A. Fujii Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Contributors Index