Yi Colonizing Language

Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54536-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Christina Yi investigates linguistic nationalism in the formation of literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yi, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Names, Terminology, and Translations
Introduction
1. National Language Ideology in the Age of Empire
2. “Let Me In!”: Imperialization in Metropolitan Japan
3. Envisioning a Literature of the Imperial Nation
4. Coming to Terms with the Terms of the Past
5. Colonial Legacies and the Divided “I” in Occupation-Period Japan
6. Collaboration, Wartime Responsibility, and Colonial Memory
Epilogue
Appendix: Korean Authors and Literary Critics
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Yi is assistant professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of British Columbia.