Modernism and Japanese Culture [electronic resource] /
Starrs, R.author.
An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Modernity and Modernism in a Japanese Context -- PART I: CONSTRUCTING 'MODERNITY' AND 'TRADITION': MODERNISM AND ANTI-MODERNISM IN MEIJI JAPAN, 1868-1912 -- Constructing Meiji Modernity -- The Anti-Modernist Backlash: Constructing Meiji Tradition -- The Novel as Modernist Medium: Modernity and Anti-Modernity in Meiji Fiction -- PART II: HIGH MODERNISM AND THE FASCIST BACKLASH, 1912-1945 -- The Japanese Modernist Generation, 1912-1931 -- The Historical Context of Japanese Modernism -- The Legacy of Japonisme in Japan Itself -- Kawabata as Modernist and Anti-modernist -- Overview -- Crystal Fantasies: Kawabata and the Modern Condition -- Snow Country: Kawabata and the Overcoming of Modernity -- PART III: THE RIVAL MODERNISMS OF POSTWAR JAPAN, 1945-1970 -- Modernist Missionaries: The Americans in Japan, 1945-1952 -- Japanese Responses to American Missionary Modernism -- The Occupation in Fiction -- French as an Alternative to American Modernism -- Oe Kenzaburo's 'Ambiguous' Utopianism -- Responses from the Right: The Empire Strikes Back -- The Reactionary Modernism of Mishima Yukio -- PART IV: EMPTY AND MARVELLOUS: JAPAN IN THE 'POSTMODERN AGE', 1970-2010 -- Defining the 'Postmodern Condition' -- 'Postmodernity' in Japan -- National Culture and Identity in a 'Postmodern' Age -- A Goethean Conclusion -- Afterword: Japanese Modernism Today.
An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena.
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Twentieth-Century Literature.
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