Otaku [electronic resource] : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
2009
HN723.5 .A9513 2009eb
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Title Otaku [electronic resource] : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Author Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
Uniform Title Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan. English
Edition [English ed.].
ISBN 9780816653515 (hc : alk. paper)
0816653518 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816653522 (pb : alk. paper)
0816653526 (pb : alk. paper)
Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xxix, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number HN723.5 .A9513 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306/.10952
Note "Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.
Translated from the Japanese.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index.
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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.

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