Discourses of the vanishing modernity phantasm japan ivy marilyn isbn 9780226388335 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated 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 provocative conjoining of ethnography history and cultural criticism marilyn ivy discloses these anxieties and the attempts to contain . Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated 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 provocative conjoining of ethnography history and cultural criticism marilyn ivy discloses these anxieties and the attempts to contain . Discourses of the vanishing modernity phantasm japan author marilyn ivy published on july 1995 author mediactsnetorg markus schweizer 2020 10 31 10 51 16 subject discourses of the vanishing modernity phantasm japan author marilyn ivy published on july 1995 keywords. Ivy does a fantastic job tracing how the peripheral and particular in japan have become enshrined as the sites of tradition in contemporary japan one can never have too much demystification and ivy manages it with nuance and grace noting the phantasms but also noting that phantasm is not pure fiction