A Sense of the City

Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879-1959)
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34537-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture

In A Sense of the City, Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafu’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Showa period. She argues that Kafu’s urban critique was based on his awareness of the cultural sedimentation of the cityscape and of the complex relationship that it bore with the historical framework of modern Japan.

With the overall aim to define Kafu’s position within pre-war Japanese literature, Follaco touches upon key issues such as memory, class difference, and language ideologies; draws connections between his sojourn abroad and strategies of “mapping” the city of Tokyo in his literature; and takes into account works previously understudied, including his biography of Washizu Kido and his photographs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Follaco, Gala Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1: Abroad
1 Shanghai
2 Tacoma, Seattle, Kalamazoo
3 New York
4 Lyon, Paris

Part 2: Tokyo
5 Dealing with the Other
6 Rhetoric of Places
7 Deletion, Ingenuousness, Memory
8 An Intimate Cartography

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gala Maria Follaco, Ph.D. (2012), “L’Orientale” University of Naples, is Research Fellow of Japanese Studies at that University. She has translated the works of several Japanese writers and published articles on urban representation in modern and contemporary Japanese literature.