{"product_id":"imperial-genus-the-formation-and-limits-of-the-human-in-modern-korea-and-japan-volume-14-paperback-2","title":"Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan Volume 14 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTravis Workman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Genus \u003c\/i\u003ebegins 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Genus \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainty between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eIt 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Genus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eService Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravis Workman\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45774289469637,"sku":"9780520289598","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Zk1qkTaiSh9780520289598_528ca1ad-a8bb-4e81-914b-2c37de282c18.webp?v=1770520852","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/imperial-genus-the-formation-and-limits-of-the-human-in-modern-korea-and-japan-volume-14-paperback-2","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}