Topographies of Japanese Modernism / / Seiji Lippit.
What happens when a critique of modernity-a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"-is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of J...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fissures of Japanese Modernity
- 1. Disintegrating Mechanisms of Subjectivity: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's Last Writings
- 2. Topographies of Empire: Yokomitsu Riichi's Shanghai
- 3. Mapping the Space of Mass Culture: Kawabata Yasunari's. Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
- 4. Negations of Genre: Hayashi Fumiko's Nomadic Writing
- 5. A Phantasmatic Return: Yokomitsu Riichi's Melancholic Nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index