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Otaku : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.

Author/creator Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
Format Electronic and Book
Edition[English ed.]
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxix, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Uniform titleDōbutsukasuru posutomodan. English
Contents Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.
General note"Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.
General noteTranslated from the Japanese.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008040819
ISBN9780816653515 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816653518 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816653522 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816653526 (pb : alk. paper)

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