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Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
Hiroki Azuma
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Description for Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
Hardback. Translator(s): Abel, Jonathan E. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
A publishing event—the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan’s leading public intellectuals, otaku culture ... Read moreA vital non-Western intervention in postmodern culture and theory, Otaku is also an appealing and perceptive account of Japanese popular culture. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653515
SKU
V9780816653515
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About Hiroki Azuma
Shion Kono is assistant professor of literature at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
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