EAN: 9783039108749

SEEKING THE SELF - SATOMI ISHIKAWA GEBUNDEN

This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures  in
which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood  in Japanese culture the self is
constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining
the ways popular culture is consumed  with a special focus on manga  the Japanese word for
comics and cartoons. The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the
author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge.
In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since
the country's modernisation period.

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