1. Failure and identity -- 2. The yellow race -- 3. The menace of race -- 4. Loving the nation, preserving the race -- 5. The quest for beauty and notions of femininity -- 6. Community of expiation : confessions, masochism, and masculinity -- 7. Kumen, cultural suffering -- Conclusion : the emergence of culture in failure
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