Afterlives of Letters - The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan,

Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction
Part I: A Multilayered Contact Space in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia
1. Literature’s Search for Itself: Liang Qichao and Meiji Political Fiction
2. Literature and Life in Exile: Sin Ch’aeho’s Engagement with Liang Qichao’s Work
Part II: Reforming Language and Redefining “Literature”
3. Parody and Repetition: Rereading the Works of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu
4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu
Part III: Japan’s Imperial Mimicry and Its Critique
5. Archaeology of Resistance: Zhou Zuoren’s Cultural Criticism in Wartime East Asia
6. Transnational Allegory: Intertextualizing Lu Xun in Late Colonial Korean, Taiwanese, and Manchukuo Literatures
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Satoru Hashimoto is assistant professor of comparative thought and literature at the Johns Hopkins University.

Summary

Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms.

Product details

• Authors: Satoru Hashimoto
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231211529
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21152-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, literary criticism; East Asia