Otaku [electronic resource] : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
By: Azuma, Hiroki.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009Edition: [English ed.].Description: xxix, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Uniform titles: D�obutsukasuru posutomodan. English Subject(s): Subculture -- Japan | Popular culture -- Japan | Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306/.10952 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view "Originally published in Japanese as D�obutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: K�odansha 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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