The dawn that never comes : Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese nationalism / Michael K. Bourdaghs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourdaghs, Michael K.

Series:

Studies of the East Asian Institute

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943--Criticism and interpretation.

Shimazaki, Tōson.

Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943.

Nationalism in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination 19

Chapter 2 The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual 47

Chapter 3 Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family 77

Chapter 4 Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women's Literature" in Spring and New Life 114

Chapter 5 The Times and Spaces of Nations: The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn 154

Epilogue: The Most Japanese of Things 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0231129807

OCLC:

51861979