Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
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消失的话语：现代性、幻想、日本
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10.2307/3034784
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1995
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Marilyn J. Ivy
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作者：
Marilyn J. Ivy
尽管人们普遍坚称日本在文化上保持完整，但对国家认同和连续性可能丧失的深切焦虑令许多日本人感到不安。在民族志、历史和文化批评的结合中，玛丽莲·艾维揭示了这些焦虑，因为她追踪了她所说的消失：在即将消失的时刻暂停的边缘化事件、场所和文化实践。艾维展示了日本作为一个现代民族国家的崛起是如何伴随着对文化边缘的迷恋的。这种迷恋在 20 世纪初日本民俗研究的建立以及它试图记录这些边缘的幽灵般的、有时甚至是暴力的叙述中达到了顶峰。然后，她通过一系列当代重新配置来追踪对消失的痴迷：偏远社区努力将自己宣传为怀旧的真实性场所，讲故事的做法作为前现代存在的标志，大规模的旅行活动，盲人媒介对死者的追忆，以及受歌舞伎启发的流动民粹主义戏剧。
Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this conjoining of ethnography, history and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties, as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early 20th-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of pre-modern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theatre.