Susan L Burns

Before the Nation

Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331834
• ISBN-10: 0822331837
• Artikelnr.: 20984150

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Between Community and the Nation 1
1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community 16
2 Before the Kojikiden: The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan 35
3 Motoori Norinaga: Discovering Japan 68
4 Ueda Akinari: History and Community 102
5 Fujitani Mitsue: The Poetics of Community 131
6 Tachibana Moribe: Cosmology and Community 158
7 National Literature, Intellectual History, and the New Kokugaku 187
Conclusion: Imagined Japan(s) 220
Appendix: "Reading" the Kojiki 227
Notes 231
Works Cited 259
Index 271