Uchida Hyakken : a critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan / Rachel Dinitto.
Uchida Hyakken : a critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan / Rachel Dinitto.
Uchida Hyakken : a critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan / Rachel Dinitto.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N895.609/26
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English
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viii, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Resisting modernity in realm of the dead -- A critique for elite fiction : Professor Fujita Hyakkien and the prewar zuihitsu -- Reliving War, rewriting history : film, architecture, memory -- Return to the city : excavating momory in "Tokyo diary."
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2008.
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"This book takes up Hyakken's fiction and essays written during Japan's prewar years to investigate the intersection of his literature with the material and discursive surroundings of the time: a consumer-oriented print culture; the popular entertainment of film; the capitalist and cultural force of an emergent middle class; a planned yet sprawling...
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Uchida Hyakken : a critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan / Rachel Dinitto.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 310.
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 310.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N895.609/26
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74VMjglQEZp3
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0674031121 (hbk.) :
9780674031128 (hbk.) :
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895.609
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991001161409702626
