1st Edition
Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture Ruinous Garden
By Dennitza Gabrakova
Copyright 2023
182 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.”
Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents succinct analyses of visual works, as well as cultural criticisms, centered on space in... Read more
1. Debris of Identity: Visions of Japan and Images of Hong Kong 2. The Hedges of Brightness: Yanobe Kenji’s Adventure 3. The Violence of Disappearance: Hong Kong’s Dislocation 4. The Dislocation of Development: Toda Tsutomu’s Graphic Design 5. Between Memory and Fabrication
Biography
Dennitza Gabrakova is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Ruinous Garden is the final book of her literary and visual trilogy on developmentalism, including The Dream of Weeds (in Japanese, 2012) and The Unnamable Archipelago (2018).
