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Discourses Of The Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan

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Book Title: Discourses Of The Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan

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Author: Marilyn Ivy

Publication Name: Discourses of the Vanishing : Modernity, Phantasm, Japan

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication Year: 1995

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Item Weight: 15.5 Oz

Number of Pages: 277 Pages

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