Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature write by Makoto Ueda. This book was released on 1976. Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature write by Makoto Ueda. This book was released on 1983. Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Stanford University Press classic.
Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature
Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature write by Noriko Mizuta Lippit. This book was released on 2017-07-28. Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 1980. In twentieth century Japanese literature, the opposition and interaction of realism and romanticism on the level of literary concepts, and of Marxism and aestheticism (including, in part, modernism) on the level of literary ideology, supplies a most vital basis for writers searching for new methods of literary expression, fostering debates among the writers and creating the setting for active experimentation with style, form and language. This study is a result of an extended stay in the United States by the author who turned increasingly toward questioning and evaluating my own relation to Japan's literary heritage. For Japanese who have witnessed (at least intellectually) the violent attraction to and rejection of foreign cultures of many of their predecessors in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, and their final, often sentimental and abstract, glorification of the Japanese cultural heritage, nihon kaiki (return to Japan) still presents enormously complex intellectual as well as emotional problems.
Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature write by Tomoko Aoyama. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like an object but is actually a relationship." So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? Reading Food explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Tomoko Aoyama analyzes a wide range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people’s relationships to food, nature, and culture, and to each other. The examples she offers are taken from novels (shosetsu) and other literary texts and include well known writers (such as Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Hayashi Fumiko, Okamoto Kanoko, Kaiko Takeshi, and Yoshimoto Banana) as well as those who are less widely known (Murai Gensai, Nagatsuka Takashi, Sumii Sue, and Numa Shozo). Food is everywhere in Japanese literature, and early chapters illustrate historical changes and variations in the treatment of food and eating. Examples are drawn from Meiji literary diaries, children’s stories, peasant and proletarian literature, and women’s writing before and after World War II. The author then turns to the theme of cannibalism in serious and popular novels. Key issues include ethical questions about survival, colonization, and cultural identity. The quest for gastronomic gratification is a dominant theme in "gourmet novels." Like cannibalism, the gastronomic journey as a literary theme is deeply implicated with cultural identity. The final chapter deals specifically with contemporary novels by women, some of which celebrate the inclusiveness of eating (and writing), while others grapple with the fear of eating. Such dread or disgust can be seen as a warning against what the complacent "gourmet boom" of the 1980s and 1990s concealed: the dangers of a market economy, environmental destruction, and continuing gender biases. Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature will tempt any reader with an interest in food, literature, and culture. Moreover, it provides appetizing hints for further savoring, digesting, and incorporating textual food.
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature write by Rachael Hutchinson. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in their work. Drawing on methodology from Foucault and Lacan, the clearly presented essays seek to show how Japanese writers have responded to the central question of what it means to be ‘Japanese’ and of how best to define their identity. Taking geographical, racial and ethnic identity as a starting point to explore Japan's vision of 'non-Japan', representations of the Other are examined in terms of the experiences of Japanese authors abroad and in the imaginary lands envisioned by authors in Japan. Using a diverse cross-section of writers and texts as case studies, this edited volume brings together contributions from a number of leading international experts in the field and is written at an accessible level, making it essential reading for those working in Japanese studies, colonialism, identity studies and nationalism.
