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Title
Otaku
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
Subculture--Japan (LCSH)
Popular culture--Japan (LCSH)
Japan--Civilization--1945 (LCSH)
Language
English
English
Japaneseoriginal
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
Japan
Classification
LCC: HN723.5 .A9513 2009
DDC: 306/.10952 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Note
Includes translation
Table Of 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.
Authorized Access Point
Azuma, Hiroki, 1971- Otaku