Spatiality, destruction, and the individual in Takeda Taijun's Sekai: an exposition and critique.
This article offers an examination of the Japanese postwar writer Takeda Taijun's concept of destruction (metsubō) and his view of the sekai, or "world," as a theoretical tool against Japanese imperialism, and potentially also for a transnational history. It first examines Takeda's wartime book-leng...
| Publicado en: | Japan Forum Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 55 - 78 |
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Mar2024
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