From taming savages to going native: self and other on the Taiwan Aboriginal frontier -- Ethnography and literature: Sato Haruo's colonial journey to Taiwan -- The adventures of Momotaro in the South Seas: folklore, colonial policy, parody -- The colonial eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi -- Cannibalism in postwar literature
This is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. The author demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized
