LEADER 03059nam 22005055 450 001 996456646103316 005 20220601143601.0 010 $a0-520-38172-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520381728 035 $a(CKB)4950000000289999 035 $a(DE-B1597)577522 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520381728 035 $a(ScCtBLL)dea7062c-1c9d-4427-9393-4240d9dde7d8 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423226 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000289999 100 $a20220131h20222021 fg 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 205 $a1 ed. 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 225 0 $aNew Interventions in Japanese Studies ;$v1 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. ?Pre-Nation? --$t1. Competing ?Languages? --$t2. Sound, Scripts, and Styles --$t3. Zoku as Aesthetic Criterion --$tPart II. Race and Language Reform --$tIntroduction --$t4. Racializing the National Language --$t5. Tropes of Racialization in the Works of Natsume S?seki --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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. 606 $aJapanese language$xReform$yMeiji period, 1868-1912 606 $aLanguage policy$zJapan$yMeiji period, 1868-1912 606 $aNationalism$zJapan$yMeiji period, 1868-1912 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Japan$2bisacsh 615 0$aJapanese language$xReform 615 0$aLanguage policy 615 0$aNationalism 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Japan. 676 $a306.44/952 700 $aUeda$b Atsuko$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01081760 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996456646103316 996 $aLanguage, Nation, Race$92596377 997 $aUNISA