Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature
(Book #240 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place ( furusato ) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s witnessed the appearance of fictional works describing a city dweller who returns to his native place, where he reflects on the evils of urban life and the idyllic past of his childhood home. The...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674016521
ISBN13:9780674016521
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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