Otaku [electronic resource] : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.

By: Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009Edition: [English ed.]Description: xxix, 144 p. : illUniform titles: Dobutsukasuru posutomodan. English Subject(s): Subculture -- Japan | Popular culture -- Japan | Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306/.10952 LOC classification: HN723.5 | .A9513 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.
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"Originally published in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index.

Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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