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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Author: Karatani Kojin
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the West. It is both the boldest critique of modern Japanese literary history to appear in the post-war era and a major theoretical intervention, which calls into question the idea of modernity that informs Western consciousness. In a sweeping reinterpretation of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Karatani Kojin forces a reconsideration of the very assumptions underlying our concepts of modernity. In his analysis, such familiar terms as origin, modern, literature, and the state reveal themselves to be ideological constructs. Karatani weaves many separate strands into an argument that exposes what has been hidden in both Japanese and Western accounts of the development of modern culture. Among these strands are the discovery of landscape in painting and literature and its relation to the inwardness of individual consciousness the similar discovery in Japanese drama of the naked face as another kind of landscape produced by interiority the challenge to the dominance of Chinese characters in writing the emergence of confessional literature as an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality and the body the conversion of the samurai class to Christianity the mythologizing of tuberculosis, cancer, and illness in general as a producer of meaning and the discovery of the child as an independent category of human being. A work that will be important beyond the confines of literary studies, Karatanis analysis challenges basic Western presumptions of theoretical centrality and originality and disturbs the binary opposition of the West to its so-called other. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature should be read by all those with an interest in the development of cultural concepts and in the interrelating factors that have determined modernity. **From Library Journal While this work of literary theory, which first appeared in Japanese in 1980, concentrates on the literature and thought of the 1980s, it challenges readers to reinterpret the literature of the entire Meiji Period (1868-1926) in six discrete essays plus a forward by Frederick Jameson and materials added for the English and paperback editions. Karatani (literature, Hosei Univ.) is at his most provocative when discussing the discovery of landscape in painting and literature as well as of the child as a human being. In his examinations of such important Meiji writers as Soseki, Kunidida Doppo, Tayama Katai, and Tsubouchi Shoyo, he offers insightful cultural criticism of subjects such as ethnography, religion, language, and modernity in the West and East. This far-reaching and bold reconsideration of Japanese literary history can be appreciated by scholars of modern thought and literature, above all those versed in Japanese studies. - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review I have hopes that Karatanis book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statementwill also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West. . . . For Origins has some lessons for us about critical pluralism, in addition to its principal message, which turns on that old and new topic of modernity itself.Fredric Jameson, from the Preface Karatanis ear for anecdotes makes the book more than a dry theoretical exercise. For the English edition, Brett de Bary and her team of co-translators add background information, and an entirely new essay by Karatani, The Extinction of Genre, is included. This additional material makes the translation worth a look even for those who can read the original. (Matt Treyvaud Japan Times 2015-10-31)
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the West. It is both the boldest critique of modern Japanese literary history to appear in the post-war era and a major theoretical intervention, which calls into question the idea of modernity that informs Western consciousness. In a sweeping reinterpretation of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Karatani Kojin forces a reconsideration of the very assumptions underlying our concepts of modernity. In his analysis, such familiar terms as origin, modern, literature, and the state reveal themselves to be ideological constructs. Karatani weaves many separate strands into an argument that exposes what has been hidden in both Japanese and Western accounts of the development of modern culture. Among these strands are the discovery of landscape in painting and literature and its relation to the inwardness of individual consciousness the similar discovery in Japanese drama of the naked face as another kind of landscape produced by interiority the challenge to the dominance of Chinese characters in writing the emergence of confessional literature as an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality and the body the conversion of the samurai class to Christianity the mythologizing of tuberculosis, cancer, and illness in general as a producer of meaning and the discovery of the child as an independent category of human being. A work that will be important beyond the confines of literary studies, Karatanis analysis challenges basic Western presumptions of theoretical centrality and originality and disturbs the binary opposition of the West to its so-called other. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature should be read by all those with an interest in the development of cultural concepts and in the interrelating factors that have determined modernity. **From Library Journal While this work of literary theory, which first appeared in Japanese in 1980, concentrates on the literature and thought of the 1980s, it challenges readers to reinterpret the literature of the entire Meiji Period (1868-1926) in six discrete essays plus a forward by Frederick Jameson and materials added for the English and paperback editions. Karatani (literature, Hosei Univ.) is at his most provocative when discussing the discovery of landscape in painting and literature as well as of the child as a human being. In his examinations of such important Meiji writers as Soseki, Kunidida Doppo, Tayama Katai, and Tsubouchi Shoyo, he offers insightful cultural criticism of subjects such as ethnography, religion, language, and modernity in the West and East. This far-reaching and bold reconsideration of Japanese literary history can be appreciated by scholars of modern thought and literature, above all those versed in Japanese studies. - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review I have hopes that Karatanis book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statementwill also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West. . . . For Origins has some lessons for us about critical pluralism, in addition to its principal message, which turns on that old and new topic of modernity itself.Fredric Jameson, from the Preface Karatanis ear for anecdotes makes the book more than a dry theoretical exercise. For the English edition, Brett de Bary and her team of co-translators add background information, and an entirely new essay by Karatani, The Extinction of Genre, is included. This additional material makes the translation worth a look even for those who can read the original. (Matt Treyvaud Japan Times 2015-10-31)
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