The textual townsman : writing urban identity in early modern Japan
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The textual townsman : writing urban identity in early modern Japan
Columbia University Press, 2026
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"The Textual Townsman examines the formation of urban subjectivity in Japan between the late 17th and mid-18th century. It argues that the capacity to imagine a shared sense of urban identity and community--one that would integrate the specificities of place and occupation and status of birth into a normative sense of shared values--was built on the circulation of woodblock-printed texts. The identity is that of the "townsman" or "urban commoner" (chōnin), roughly comparable to a pre-industrial bourgeoisie. Where previous studies have taken the townsman as a stable position within a static social hierarchy, The Textual Townsman begins from the premise that early modern identity was not as stable as it might seem: especially in the hybrid spaces of the city, boundaries were dynamic, porous, and open to discursive contestation. The indeterminacy lurking within seemingly self-evident social distinctions drove textual production and literary representation, as writers attempted to understand the tensions
