An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena. ROY STARRS teaches Japanese and Asian Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published widely on Japanese literature, art and culture, including books on Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Naoya Shiga. He has also edited three books on Japanese and Asian nationalism and globalization. Hisedited book, 'Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus', is forthcoming from Palgrave in 2011. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: Modernity and Modernism in a Japanese Context - PART I: CONSTRUCTING 'MODERNITY' AND 'TRADITION': MODERNISM ANDANTI-MODERNISM IN MEIJI JAPAN, 1868-1912 - Constructing Meiji Modernity - TheAnti-Modernist Backlash: Constructing Meiji Tradition - The Novel as Modernist Medium: Modernity and Anti-Modernity in Meiji Fiction - PART II: HIGH MODERNISM AND THE FASCIST BACKLASH, 1912-1945 - The Japanese Modernist Generation, 1912-1931 - The Historical Context of Japanese Modernism - The Legacy of Japonisme in Japan Itself - Kawabata as Modernist and Anti-modernist - PART III: THERIVAL MODERNISMS OF POSTWAR JAPAN, 1945-1970 - Modernist Missionaries: The Americans in Japan, 1945-1952 - Japanese Responses to American Missionary Modernism - The Occupation in Fiction - French as an Alternative to American Modernism - Ee KenzaburE 's 'Ambiguous' Utopianism - Responses from the Right: The Empire Strikes Back - The Reactionary Modernism of Mishima Yukio - PART IV: EMPTY AND MARVELLOUS: JAPAN IN THE 'POSTMODERN AGE', 1970-2010 - Defining the 'Postmodern Condition' - 'Postmodernity' in Japan - National Culture and Identity in a 'Postmodern' Age - A Goethean Conclusion - Afterword: Japanese Modernism Today
- ISBN: 978-0-230-34644-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés