LEADER 03988nam 22005894a 450 001 9910816002203321 005 20231005171904.0 010 $a0-231-50341-5 024 7 $a10.7312/bour12980 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445272 035 $a(EBL)909103 035 $a(OCoLC)826476622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135222 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135222 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10058480 035 $a(PQKB)10228675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909103 035 $a(DE-B1597)458667 035 $a(OCoLC)213304963 035 $a(OCoLC)979879820 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231503419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183442 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445272 100 $a20030311d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Dawn that never comes $eShimazaki To?son and Japanese nationalism /$fMichael K. Bourdaghs 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (x, 273 pages) 225 1 $aStudies of the East Asian Institute 311 0 $a1-322-35311-5 311 0 $a0-231-12980-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter one. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination --$tChapter two. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual --$tChapter three. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family --$tChapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women's Literature" in Spring and New Life --$tChapter five. The Times and Spaces of Nations: The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn --$tEpilogue. The Most Japanese of Things --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aA critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Analyzing Toson's major works, Michael K. Bourdaghs demonstrates that the construction of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied-and sometimes contradictory-figures for imagining the national community. Many scholars have shown, for example, that modern hygiene has functioned in nationalist thought as a method of excluding foreign others as diseased. This study explores the multiple images of illness appearing in Toson's fiction to demonstrate that hygiene employs more than one model of pathology, and it reveals how this multiplicity functioned to produce the combinations of exclusion and assimilation required to sustain a sense of national community. Others have argued that nationalism is inherently ambivalent and self-contradictory; Bourdaghs shows more concretely both how this is so and why it is necessary and provides, in the process, a new way of thinking about national imagination. Individual chapters take up such issues as modern medicine and the discourses of national health; ideologies of the family and its representation in modern literary works; the gendering of the canon of national literature; and the multiple forms of space and time that narratives of national history require. 410 0$aStudies of the East Asian Institute. 606 $aNationalism in literature 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 676 $a895.6/34 700 $aBourdaghs$b Michael K$01024383 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816002203321 996 $aThe Dawn that never comes$93979091 997 $aUNINA