03501nam 2200589Ia 450 991081084960332120200520144314.00-231-50068-810.7312/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)99267000000024136220010926d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTopographies of Japanese modernism /Seiji M. LippitNew York Columbia University Pressc20021 online resource (321 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-12531-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-291) and index.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 fictionTaisho period, 1912-1926History and criticismJapanese fictionShowa period, 1926-1989History and criticismModernism (Literature)JapanJapanese fictionHistory and criticism.Japanese fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)895.6/34409112Lippit Seiji M1754723MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810849603321Topographies of Japanese modernism4191203UNINA