Topographies of Japanese Modernism.

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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 o.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lippit, Seiji M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
1912-1989
Japanese fiction > Taishō period, 1912-1926 > History and criticism.
Japanese fiction > Shōwa period, 1926-1989 > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Japan.
Roman japonais > 1912-1926 (Ère Taishō) > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Japon.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Japanese.
Japanese fiction > Shōwa period
Japanese fiction > Taishō period
Modernism (Literature)
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fissures of Japanese Modernity; 1. Disintegrating Mechanisms of Subjectivity: Akutagawa Ryunosuke'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.

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