Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : empire, transculturation, and literary contact nebulae
  • Travel, readerly contact, and writerly contact in the Japanese empire
  • Transcultural literary criticism in the Japanese empire
  • Multiple vectors and early interlingual transculturations of Japanese literature
  • From cultural innovation to total war
  • Intertextuality, empire and East Asia
  • Spotlight on suffering
  • Reconceptualizing relationships : individuals, families, nations
  • Questions of agency : raising responsibility, parodying persistence, and rethinking reform
  • Epilogue : postwar intra-East Asian dialogues and the future of negotiating transculturally.