UID:
edocfu_9958351984602883
Format:
1 online resource (312 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2003. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780231503419
Series Statement:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Content:
A 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. This book surveys the ideologies of national imagination at play in early-twentieth-century Japan, specifically in the work of Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943) Bourdaghs analyzes Toson's major works in detail, using them to demonstrate that the field of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied--and sometimes even contradictory--figures for imagining the national community.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Chapter one. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination --
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Chapter two. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual --
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Chapter three. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family --
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Chapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women’s Literature" in Spring and New Life --
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Chapter five. The Times and Spaces of Nations:The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn --
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Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/bour12980
