Japanese Poetry and Its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima

ISBN-13: 9780367891039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Dean Anthony Brink

Opis

This book shows how highly public poetry have in various historical situations in Japan and colonial Taiwan contested as well as promoted various colonial imaginaries: poetic reflections of life under a national culture increasingly subordinated to private corporate interests.

Spis treści

Introduction: Japanese Poetry and its Publics

Chapter One: Japanese Imperialism and Poetic Matrices – Conventional and Autopoietic Projections of "Nature," Place, and Labor in Early Colonial Taiwan

Chapter Two: Transculturation and Extreme Intertextuality—Taiwanese Poets in the New Year’s Day Poetry Pages of Colonial Taiwan

Chapter Three: Nativist Legacies of Desinicization and Nationalist Sentiment in Poetry During the Second Sino-Japanese War

Chapter Four: The Long View of Colonial Regimes: The Taiwan Tanka Association’s Poetry of Witness

Chapter Five: Postcolonial Affiliation after 3.11: Hyperobjects and Inter-evental Entanglement in the Taiwan Tanka Association

Chapter Six: Poetry Blogs and Posthuman Archives in Postcolonial Taiwan

Appendix

Index

O autorze

Dean Anthony Brink, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University