LEADER 02688nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910814256803321 005 20240514043622.0 010 $a0-8047-7888-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804778886 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056648 035 $a(EBL)785370 035 $a(OCoLC)767498721 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000639303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437992 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10604588 035 $a(PQKB)10578871 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127935 035 $a(DE-B1597)564475 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804778886 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL785370 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10503307 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC785370 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056648 100 $a20110318d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn uneven ground $eMiyazawa Kenji and the making of place in modern Japan /$fHoyt Long 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7686-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThe 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.