Afterlives of Letters
The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2023
432 pages
978-0-231-55895-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Satoru Hashimoto is assistant professor of comparative thought and literature at the Johns Hopkins University.
Content
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 Ogai, and Yi Kwangsu
4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ogai, 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
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 Ogai, and Yi Kwangsu
4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ogai, 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
