Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Distinguishing Literature and the Work of Translation: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée and Repetition without Return -- 2 The Problem of "Japanese Thought": The Formation of "Japan" and the Schema of Cofiguration -- 3 Return to the West/Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsurô's Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity -- 4 Subject and/or Shutai and the Inscription of Cultural Difference -- 5 Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism -- 6 Death and Poetic Language in Postwar Japan -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.