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Age of Disaffection is a profound exploration of the politics and aesthetics of emotion. In this startlingly original book, Patrick Noonan analyzes the turn to subjectivity in the 1960s, drawing a line from political disenchantment to new strategies of self-stylization. This book offers new insights into the shared critical terrain of Terayama Shūji, Kuroi Senji, Yoshida Kijū, and Yoshimoto Takaaki. A dazzling work of scholarship with a remarkable ethical vision. -- Diane Wei Lewis, author of <i>Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan</i>

Age of Disaffection is a profound exploration of the politics and aesthetics of emotion. In this startlingly original book, Patrick Noonan analyzes the turn to subjectivity in the 1960s, drawing a line from political disenchantment to new strategies of self-stylization. This book offers new insights into the shared critical terrain of Terayama Shūji, Kuroi Senji, Yoshida Kijū, and Yoshimoto Takaaki. A dazzling work of scholarship with a remarkable ethical vision. -- Diane Wei Lewis, author of <i>Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan</i> Building on a robust discourse on 1960s culture in Japan, Age of Disaffection offers a new way to understand the so-called ‘non-political’ faction of Japanese youth culture. Noonan presents an argument for the social meaningfulness of political disengagement in the cultivation of autonomy—a clever balancing act and one very relevant to our current situation with doomsday scenarios driving politics across the spectrum. -- Steve Ridgely, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Patrick Noonan is assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at Northwestern University.

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