Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan: Dreams of the Bubble Economy

ISBN-13: 9781032287270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str.

Ikuho Amano

Opis

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the ‘Bubble-era’ of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism  1. Dreams of Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption  2. You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy  3. The Age of Festivity: Women’s Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury  4. An Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen  5. Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy  6. Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy  7. The Bubble Economy as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment  Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism

O autorze

Ikuho Amano is Associate Professor of Japanese at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA.