Literature, modernity, and the practice of resistance
Subtitle: Japanese and Taiwanese fiction, 1960-1990
By: by Margaret Hillenbrand.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Description: "This book is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study which compares responses to modernity in the literary cultures of Japan and Taiwan, 1960-1990. Moving beyond the East-West framework that has traditionally dominated comparative enquiry, the volume sets out to explore contemporary East Asian literature on its own terms. As such, it belongs to the newly emerging area of inter-Asian cultural studies, but is the first full-length monograph to explore this field through the prism of literature. The book combines close readings of paradigmatic texts with in-depth analysis of the historical, social, and ideological contexts in which these works are situated, and explores the form and function of literary practice within the "miracle" societies of industrialized East Asia."--Jacket.