Mother-Tongue in Modern Japanese Literature and Criticism Toward a New Polylingual Poetics /
This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue" as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9789811085123 |
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| Summary: | This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue" as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature. Through the insights of recent philosophical/linguistic theories, it reveals the political problems of the notion of "mother-tongue" in literary and linguistic theories and proposes strategies to realize genuinely "exophonic" and "translational" literature beyond the confines of nation. Examining the notion of "mother-tongue" in literature and literary criticism, the author deconstructs the concept and language itself as an apparatus of nation-state in order to imagine alternative literature, genuinely creolized and heterogeneous. Offering a comparative, transnational perspective on the significance of the mother tongue in contemporary literatures, this is a key read for students of modern Japanese literature, language and culture, as well as those interested in theories of translation and bilingualism. |
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| Item Description: | Literature, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Physical Description: | XV, 183 p. 2 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789811085123 |