Representing empire : Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria / by Ying Xiong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xiong, Ying, Ph.D., author.

Series:

East Asian comparative literature and culture ; 3.

East Asian comparative literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Taiwan--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--China--Manchuria--History and criticism.

National characteristics, Japanese, in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Regionalism--East Asia.

Regionalism.

East Asia.

China--Manchuria.

Taiwan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 375 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, this book reveals not only a nuanced picture of Japanese literary terrain but also the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism in the colonies.0While the existing literature on Japanese nationalism has largely remained within the confines of national history, by using colonial literature as an example, Ying Xiong demonstrates that transnational forces shaped Japanese nationalism in the twentieth century.0With its multidisciplinary and comparative approach, this book adds to a growing body of literature that challenges traditional interpretations of Japanese nationalism and national literary canon.

Contents:

Part I. Exoticising the other, reinventing the self

National literature and beyond

Local discovered

National lineage reinvented

Part II. Pan-Asianism unrealised

Between imperialism and pan-Asianism

Literature in the name of national harmony

Translating texts, transforming identities

Part III. Re-mapping the empire : Japan, Taiwan, and Manchukuo

Imperial knowledge and colonial power

Romanticising the empire

Local literature in ambivalence

Conclusion: Japanese nationalism and its discontents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004274103

9789004274105

OCLC:

876562030

Publisher Number:

99959832374