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Publication details [#6868]

Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig. 1996. The black hole of culture: Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, 'in Japan everything normal). In Budick, Sanford and Wolfgang Iser, eds. The translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 186–206.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

comparative research=contrastive research | culture=cultural approach | identity | interculturality=transculturality=cross-culturality | stereotype

Abstract

This article starts off with the fun game of cultural comparisons. Next, it embarks upon fatal attractions: givenness or construction, reality or stereotype. Furthermore, it discusses the manufacture of identity and difference between radical otherness and the vanishing of difference. Next, the indeterminateness of culture and hypothetical referentializations are discussed.

Source : J. Vluijmans