03585nam 22006135 450 991046210710332120210112202631.00-231-50068-810.7312/lipp12530(CKB)2670000000241362(EBL)909194(OCoLC)818856860(SSID)ssj0000739586(PQKBManifestationID)12240339(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000739586(PQKBWorkID)10697265(PQKB)21512205(DE-B1597)459069(OCoLC)51574550(OCoLC)979620113(DE-B1597)9780231500685(MiAaPQ)EBC909194(EXLCZ)99267000000024136220190708d2002 fg engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTopographies of Japanese Modernism /Seiji LippitNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2002]©20021 online resource (321 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-12531-3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fissures of Japanese Modernity -- 1. Disintegrating Mechanisms of Subjectivity: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's Last Writings -- 2. Topographies of Empire: Yokomitsu Riichi's Shanghai -- 3. Mapping the Space of Mass Culture: Kawabata Yasunari's. Scarlet Gang of Asakusa -- 4. Negations of Genre: Hayashi Fumiko's Nomadic Writing -- 5. A Phantasmatic Return: Yokomitsu Riichi's Melancholic Nationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWhat happens when a critique of modernity-a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"-is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of Japanese modernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement- Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism.The 1920s and 1930s witnessed a general sense of crisis surrounding the institution of literature, marked by both the radical politicization of literary practice and the explosion of new forms of cultural production represented by mass culture. Against this backdrop, this study traces the heterogeneous literary topographies of modernist writings. Through an engagement with questions of representation, subjectivity, and ideology, it situates the disintegration of literary form in these texts within the writers' exploration of the fluid borderlines of Japanese modernity.Japanese fictionShōwa period, 1926-1989History and criticismJapanese fictionTaishō period, 1912-1926History and criticismLiterary criticism -- Asian -- GeneralModernism (Literature)JapanElectronic books.Japanese fictionHistory and criticism.Japanese fictionHistory and criticism.Literary criticism -- Asian -- General.Modernism (Literature)895.634409112Lippit Seiji, 1053332DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910462107103321Topographies of Japanese Modernism2485185UNINA