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Disruptions of daily life : Japanese literary modernism in the world / Arthur M. Mitchell.
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Mitchell, Arthur M.
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English
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
©2020
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viii, 266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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East Asian Library - Western Languages
PL747.57.M577 M58 2020
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Subject(s)
Japanese literature
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Taishō period, 1912-1926
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History and criticism
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Japanese literature
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Shōwa period, 1926-1989
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History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature)
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Japan
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Literature and society
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Japan
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History
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20th century
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Literary criticism
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Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Cornell East Asia series ; 202.
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Cornell East Asia series ; number 202
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Summary note
"This book explores the mass media landscape of early 20th century in order to uncover the real-world subversive impact of formalist works by four major Japanese authors-Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Through broad surveys of discourses surrounding daily life, the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, urban renaissance, and the sexological rhetoric of love and lust, this study locates ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and nation that flourished in the 1920s. Mitchell then shows how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, discursively displacing the authority of their claims and disrupting their hold upon people's imagined relationship to daily life. Mitchell elaborates an alternative modernism that challenges the primacy of the Western European model by locating modernist subversion within the local historical developments of I-novel reading practices, commodity culture, and the Great Kantō Earthquake. But the book also helps to expand modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by identifying how modernist texts themselves exposed the global epistemology of East vs. West. By rehabilitating the original nexus between literature and society, Mitchell revives and affirms the essential pedagogical function of modernist fiction to make us aware of how our realities are constructed, and thus how those realities can be changed"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Shattering the Status Quo : Reading Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
Fetishism of the West in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's A Fool's Love
Subversions of Ethnicity in Yokomitsu Riichi's Neo-Sensationist Writings
Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and the Narrative of the Present
"Love" and (Male) Subjectivity in Hirabayashi Taiko's "In the Charity Ward"
Coda : Against the National Literary Narrative.
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ISBN
9781501752919 (hardcover)
150175291X (hardcover)
LCCN
2020011026
OCLC
1143356322
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