Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945
E.Taylor Atkins
Abstract
This book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. The book focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as it reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. The book challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In the book's analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision o ... More
Keywords: Korea, Korean culture, colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, Korean performance art, mass media, imperial Japan, Koreana
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520266735 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520266735.001.0001 |
