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Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic

Specters of Modernity
By:M. Blouin
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137305213
eText ISBN:9781137305220
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendency within the United States-Japan cultural relationship to project anxiety outward only to find shadowy outlines of the self abroad.