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Mitchell, Arthur M

 
9781501752919: Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World
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ISBN 10 : 150175291X ISBN 13 : 9781501752919
Editeur : Cornell University East Asia Program, 2020

Synopsis

Disruptions of Daily Life explores the mass media landscape of early twentieth century in order to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Arthur Mitchell examines this literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model.

Through broad surveys of discussions surrounding Japanese life in the 1920s, Mitchell locates and examines flourishing divergent ideologies of the early twentieth century such as gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. He unravels how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, disrupting their hold on people's imagined relationship to daily life. These modernist works often discursively displaced the authority of their own claims by inadvertently exposing the global epistemology of East vs. West. Mitchell's reading of these formalist texts expands modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by locating subversions within the local historical culture and allowing readers to make connections to the time and place in which the texts were written.

In highlighting the unbreakable link between literature and society, Disruptions of Daily Life reaffirms the value of modernist fiction and its ability to make us aware of how realities are constructed--and how those realities can be changed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arthur Mitchell is Assistant Professor at Macalester College.

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Éditeur
Cornell University East Asia Program
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
150175291X
ISBN 13 
9781501752919
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
276
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