Language Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) - Couverture souple

Ueda, Atsuko

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ISBN 10 : 0520381718 ISBN 13 : 9780520381711

Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

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Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. 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. 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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Atsuko Ueda is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment and a coeditor of Politics and Literature Debate: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism 1945-1952.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520381718
• ISBN 13: 9780520381711
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
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• Personne responsable: non disponible