Discourses of the Vanishing

Acknowledgments
1: National-Cultural Phantasms and Modernity\'s Losses
2: Itineraries of Knowledge: Trans-figuring Japan
Travels of the Nation-Culture
Discovering \"Myself\"
Exotic Japan
The Neo-Japonesque
Re: New Japanology
3: Ghastly Insufficiencies: Tono Monogatari and the Origins of Nativist
Ethnology
Civilization and Its Remainders
The Distance between Speech and Writing
The Modern Uncanny
Undecidable Authorities
An Originary Discipline
4: Narrative Returns, Uncanny Topographies
The Home Away from Home
Museum\'d Utopias
Memorable Ruins
Textual Recursions
Reminders of the Archaic
5: Ghostly Epiphanies: Recalling the Dead on Mount Osore
Memorialization and Its Others
Boundaries of Excess: Markings, Offerings, Garbage
Ghosts in the Machine
Dividing the Voice
Trance Effects: Mourning and Predictions
Dialect and Transgression
6: Theatrical Crossings, Capitalist Dreams
Low-Budget Kabuki and Its Promises
The Grand Show
Doubled Crimes, Gendered Travesties
Counternarrative and Figurality
Powers of Attraction
Ephemeral Gifts
Afterwords on Repetition and Redemption
Bibliography
Index