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Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan : envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state /
The first literary-cultural studies project on modern Hokkaido, this study examines the problematic ways dominant narratives cast Japanese as the main characters, agents, and even victims of the modernization process, perpetuating a number of intransigent and troubling erasures. Michele M. Mason rec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The first literary-cultural studies project on modern Hokkaido, this study examines the problematic ways dominant narratives cast Japanese as the main characters, agents, and even victims of the modernization process, perpetuating a number of intransigent and troubling erasures. Michele M. Mason recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire. Critical readings of the textual and historical foundations of the (his)stories illustrate how representations of the island's colonization both obfuscate the devastating consequences on the Indigenous Ainu and define the nascent nation-state of Japan as a timeless, unified, civilized entity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137330888 1137330880 9781349450251 1349450251 |