Learning Places : The Afterlives of Area Studies

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The ``Afterlife'' of Area Studies 1(18) Ivory Tower in Escrow 19(42) Masao Miyoshi Ando Shoeki---``The Forgotten Thinker'' in Japanese History 61(19) Tetsuo Najita Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History 80(23) Stefan Tanaka Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism 103(16) Rey Chow Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture 119(31) Benita Parry Postcoloniality's Unconscious / Area Studies' Desire 150(25) H.D. Harootunian Asian Exclusion Acts 175(15) Sylvia Yanagisako Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity 190(16) Richard H. Okada Can American Studies Be Area Studies? 206(25) Paul A. Bove Imagining ``Asia-pacific'' Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific 231(30) Rob Wilson Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War 261(42) Bruce Cumings The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science 303(18) Bernard S. Silberman Bad Karma in Asia 321(23) Moss Roberts From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies 344(24) James A. Fujii Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object 368(35) Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Contributors 403(2) Index 405