Concealment of politics, politics of concealment : the production of "literature" in Meiji Japan
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Concealment of politics, politics of concealment : the production of "literature" in Meiji Japan
Stanford University Press, c2007
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm-shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a cultural category. Literature emerged out of ongoing negotiations with modernizing and globalizing impulses that governed Meiji Japan (1868-1912). This complex process is too often concealed by literary studies that assume that Japanese literary modernity began with Tsubouchi Shoyo's The Essence of the Novel (1885-6). This view has long confined the discussion of literature to very narrow terms. By recasting the Shoyo's work in the political and intellectual domains, Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment not only explores the interaction of different discourses in 1880s Japan but offers a rigorous critique of our own approaches to the history of modern Japanese literature.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments xxx Notes on Japanese Names and Terms xxx 1. Introduction 1 2. The Genealogy of the Shosetsu: From Gesaku to "Shosetsu = Novel" 000 3. The Main Constituents of the Shosetsu: Shosetsu shinzui's Criticism of Bakin and "Depoliticization" 000 4. Constructing "Asia" and Imperial Longing 000 5. Tosei shosei katagi: The "Social" Shosetsu 000 6. Unraveling the Mechanism of Concealment: Historicizing Shosetsu shinzui 000 Afterword 000 Notes 000 Glossary 000 Works Cited 000 Index
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