Writing home : representations of the native place in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd.
Writing home : representations of the native place in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd.
Writing home : representations of the native place in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N895.6/13
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : a time and a place -- 1. Kunikida Doppo : another place called home -- 2. Shimazaki Toson : a distant perspective -- 3. Shimazaki Toson : the limits of engagement -- 4. Sato Haruo : the fantasy of home -- 5. Shiga Naoya : grounds for authenticity -- 6. Shiga Naoya : a dark night's mak...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place, or furusato, from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s witnessed the appearance of fictional works describing a city-dweller who returns to his nati...
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Writing home : representations of the native place in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 240.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N895.6/13
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74VKPXRKMKDA
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ISBN
0674016521
9780674016521 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674016521 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674016521 (alk. paper)
0674016521 (alk. paper)
9780674016521
DDC
895.64093552
MMS ID
991019646129702626
