02691nam 2200589Ia 450 991078187240332120200520144314.00-8047-7888-410.1515/9780804778886(CKB)2550000000056648(EBL)785370(OCoLC)767498721(SSID)ssj0000639303(PQKBManifestationID)11437992(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639303(PQKBWorkID)10604588(PQKB)10578871(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127935(DE-B1597)564475(DE-B1597)9780804778886(Au-PeEL)EBL785370(CaPaEBR)ebr10503307(OCoLC)1198930536(MiAaPQ)EBC785370(EXLCZ)99255000000005664820110318d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn uneven ground[electronic resource] Miyazawa Kenji and the making of place in modern Japan /Hoyt LongStanford, California Stanford University Pressc20121 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7686-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Naming; Prologue: Making Place for the Author; Part One: Thinking The Local; Part Two: The Marginal Case And The Texture Of Locality; Part Three: The New Roles of Local Engagement; Epilogue: Trading Places; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). While alive, he remained a mostly unknown and unread provincial author whose experiments with narrative fiction, amateur theater, and farmer's art reveal an intense determination to reimagine and remake his native place, in the northeast of Japan, meaningful. <BRJapanese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyJapanHistory20th centuryJapanese literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory895.6/144Long Hoyt J1492400MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781872403321On uneven ground3714904UNINA