Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan : Dreams of the Bubble Economy (Paperback)

Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism  1. Dreams of Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption  2. You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble Economy  3. The Age of Festivity: Women’s Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of Luxury  4. An Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen  5. Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy  6. Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy  7. The Bubble Economy as the Inspiration for Mass Entertainment  Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism