The Politics of Culture Around the Work of Naoki Sakai [Hardcover]

Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakais writings have succeeded in large part in destabilizing that home, exposing the fragility of its boundaries to an outside that threatens constantly to overwhelm it.

Bringing together an expert team of contributors from North America, Europe and Russia, this volume takes the groundbreaking work of Naoki Sakai as its starting point and broadens the scope of Cultural Studies to bridge across philosophy and critical theory. At the same time it explicitly problematizes the putative divide between Asian and Western research objects and methodologies, and the link between culture and the nation.

The Politics of Culturewill appeal to upper level undergraduates and graduates in Asian studies, cultural studies, comparative literature and philosophy.

Editors Introduction  Part I: Translation and its Effects  1. Novelistic Desire, Theoretical Attitude, and Translating Heteroglossia: Reading Natsume SMsekis SanshirM with Naoki Sakai Michael K. Bourdaghs  2. Deixis, Dislocation, and Suspense in Translation: Tawada YMkos Bath Brett de Bary  3. Politics as Translation: Naoki Sakai and the Critique of Hermeneutics John Namjun Kim  4. The Biopolitics of Companion Species: Wartime Animation and Multi-Ethnic Nationalism Thomas Lamarre  5. Translating the Image Helen Petrovsky  Part II: Economies of Difference  6. For a Communist Ontology William Haver  7. Living in Transition: Towarlsa