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

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

By Ikuho Amano Copyright 2023
170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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

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