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Representing empire : Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria /

Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, this book reveals not only a nuanced picture of Japanese literary terrain but also the interplay between imperialism, nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xiong, Ying, Ph.D (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, [2014]
Colección:East Asian comparative literature and culture ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Exoticising the other, reinventing the self
  • National literature and beyond
  • Local discovered
  • National lineage reinvented
  • Part II. Pan-Asianism unrealised
  • Between imperialism and pan-Asianism
  • Literature in the name of national harmony
  • Translating texts, transforming identities
  • Part III. Re-mapping the empire : Japan, Taiwan, and Manchukuo
  • Imperial knowledge and colonial power
  • Romanticising the empire
  • Local literature in ambivalence
  • Conclusion: Japanese nationalism and its discontents.