The Dawn that never comes : Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese nationalism /

A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists. This book surveys the ideologies of national imagination at play in early-twentieth-century Jap...

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Main Author: Bourdaghs, Michael K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, [2003]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780231503419
0231503415
1322353115
9781322353111
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Toson, literary history, and national imagination
  • The disease of nationalism, the empire of hygiene : The Broken Commandment as hygiene manual
  • Triangulating the nation : representing and publishing The Family
  • Suicide and childbirth in the I novel : "women's literature" in Spring and New Life
  • The times and spaces of nations : the multiple chronotopes of Before the Dawn
  • Epilogue : The most Japanese of things.