LEADER 02653nam 2200421 450 001 9910493750403321 005 20230502204856.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000537378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6983584 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000537378 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000537378 100 $a20230502d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage, nation, race $elinguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) /$fAtsuko Ueda 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (172 pages) 225 1 $aNew interventions in Japanese studies 311 $a0-520-38171-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCompeting "languages" : "sound" in the orthographic reforms of early Meiji Japan -- Sound, scripts, and styles : Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan -- Zoku as aesthetic criterion : reforms for poetry and prose -- Racializing the national language : Ueda Kazutoshi's Kokugo reform -- Tropes of racialization in the works of Natsume So?seki. 330 $a"Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when "national language" (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses with the new forms of Western knowledge. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that arose in the 1990s and that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aNew interventions in Japanese studies. 517 $aLanguage, Nation, Race 606 $aJapanese language$yMeiji period, 1868-1912 615 0$aJapanese language 676 $a306.44/952 700 $aUeda$b Atsuko$01081760 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493750403321 996 $aLanguage, Nation, Race$92596377 997 $aUNINA