Engaging the other : : 'Japan' and its alter egos, 1550-1850 / / by Ronald P. Toby.

In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter w...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Japanese Studies Library 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Word about Language
  • Figures
  • Between Engagement and Imagination
  • Interlude: A Pair of Parables
  • Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation
  • Imagining and Imaging “Anthropos”
  • Indianizing Iberia/Performing Portugal: Responses to the Iberian Irruption
  • Parades of Difference/Parades of Power
  • The Birth of the Hairy Barbarian: Ethnic Slur as Cultural Marker
  • The Mountain That Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Foreign
  • Antiphonals of Identity
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.