Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic - Specters of Modernity

Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendency within the United States-Japan cultural relationship to project anxiety outward only to find shadowy outlines of the self abroad.

Michael J. Blouin is an assistant professor of English and Humanities at Milligan College.