Language, Nation, Race : : Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) / / Atsuko Ueda.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when ";national language"; (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Fa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press,, [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Interventions in Japanese Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. “Pre-Nation”
- 1. Competing “Languages”
- 2. Sound, Scripts, and Styles
- 3. Zoku as Aesthetic Criterion
- Part II. Race and Language Reform
- Introduction
- 4. Racializing the National Language
- 5. Tropes of Racialization in the Works of Natsume Sōseki
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index