Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan - Envisioning the Periphery and the Modern Nation-State

Informationen zum Autor Michele M. Mason is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland. Klappentext Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire. Zusammenfassung Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity! imperial ideology! and empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Harvesting History: Modern Narratives for Patriotic Pioneers and the Imperial Military 2. Writing Ainu Out: The 'Nature' of Japanese Colonialism in Hokkaido 3. Penal Colonies and Political Protest: Narrating the Transformation of National Identity and Literature 4. A Pantheon of Promises: Fantasies of Freedom and Capitalist Dreams 5. Contested Sites of an Enduring Colonial Past

Product details

• Authors: M Mason, M. Mason
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9781349450251
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45025-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Literature: history & criticism, World Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, Oriental literature, Asian Literature