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03715aam a2200397 i 4500 001 22C1E0562E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 170828t20182018ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017041010 020 $a 022654513X 020 $a 9780226545134 020 $a 0226811700 020 $a 9780226811703 035 $a (OCoLC)1003854721 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GZM $d EAU $d IAY $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PL726.55 $b .T68 2018 082 00 $a 895.609 $2 23 100 1 $a Treat, John Whittier, $e author. 245 14 $a The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature / $c John Whittier Treat. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2018. 300 $a v, 401 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-377) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: modern Japanese literary history -- Bird-chasing Omatsu -- Midori's choice -- SoÌseki kills a cat -- Narcissus in taish? -- Imperial Japan's worst writer -- Creole Japan -- Beheaded emperors and absent figures -- Reading comics/writing graffiti -- Yoshimoto Banana in the kitchen -- Murakami Haruki and multiple personality -- Conclusion: Takahashi Gen'ichiroÌ's disappearing future. 520 $a The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s, against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modernity, to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both cononical and forgotten works, the nonliterary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughtout the country's nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century of empire and war, its post-1945 reconstruction, and the challenges of the twenty-first century to modern nationhood. Beginning with journalistic accounts of female criminals in the aftermath of the Meiji civil war, Treat moves on to explore how novelist Higuchi IchiyoÌ's stories engaged with modern liberal economics, sex work, and marriage; credits Natsume SoÌseki's satire I Am a Cat with the triumph of print over orality in the early twentieth century; and links narcissism in the visual arts with that of the Japanese I-novel on the eve of the country's turn to militarism in the 1930s. From imperialism to Americanization and the new media of television and manga, from boogie-woogie music to Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki, Treat traces the stories Japanese audiences expected literature to tell and those they did not. The book concludes with a classic of Japanese science fiction and a description of present-day crises writers face in a Japan hobbled by a changing economy and unprecedented natural and manmade catastropes. The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature reinterprets the "end of literature"--a phrase heard often in Japan--as a clarion call to understand how literary culture worldwide now teeters on a historic precipice, one at which Japan's writers may have arriaved just a moment before the rest of us--back cover. 650 0 $a Japanese literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Japanese literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Japanese literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00981803 650 7 $a Japanisch $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4114069-2 650 7 $a Literatur $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4035964-5 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191116014739.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=22C1E0562E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search