Michael Bourdaghs (The University of Chicago)

The Dawn That Never Comes

Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, this book offers the reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan.

Produktdetails

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780231129800
• ISBN-10: 0231129807
• Artikelnr.: 21474562

Autorenporträt

Michael Bourdaghs teaches in the department of East Asian languages and cultures at UCLA. He is the translation editor of Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination
2. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: "The Broken
Commandment" as Hygiene Manual
3. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing "The Family"
4. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women's Literature'" in "Spring"
and "New Life"
5. The Times and Spaces of Nations: The Multiple Chronotopes of "Before the
Dawn"
Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things