Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan
eBook - ePub

Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan

Dreams of the Bubble Economy

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan

Dreams of the Bubble Economy

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the second largest economy in the late twentieth century.

Drawing its analysis from various media sources, popular literary works, and public reports, the book articulates how the late 1980s calibrated consumer demands, lifestyles, and perceptions of wealth. Through an examination of the qualitative effects of 'Bubble money' on consumers, the book disentangles the anatomy of the festive ambience in the economic phase, closely reading fictional and non-fictional literary works that play the role of reportage, critique, and satire. Through observations of human behaviours in consumption, the book reveals psychosomatic experiences and self-consciousness.

Featuring a wide range of sources from Japanese media and literary works which have yet to be translated for an English audience, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of modern Japanese culture and literature who are interested in the socio-economic landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan by Ikuho Amano in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Letteratura & Critica letteraria asiatica. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000832129
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria asiatica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgment
  10. Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism
  11. 1 Dreams of the Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption
  12. 2 You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy
  13. 3 The Age of Festivity: Women’s Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury
  14. 4 An Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen
  15. 5 Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy
  16. 6 Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy
  17. 7 The Bubble Economy as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment
  18. Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism
  19. Index