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Searching for Japan : 20th century Italy's fascination with Japanese culture / Michele Monserrati.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monserrati, Michele, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Transnational Italian cultures.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Transnational Italian cultures
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, Italian--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, Italian.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Japan.
- Japan--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This volume pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-119-9
- 1-78962-517-3
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