{"product_id":"afterlives-of-letters-9780231211536","title":"Afterlives of Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSatoru 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterlives of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e dismantles modern literature's self-mythologization as a break with the past by showing that East Asian authors created modern literature through conscious engagement with the literary heritage of classical Chinese. -- Christopher L. Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eFigures of The World:  The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis impressively multilingual and theoretically sophisticated analysis, Hashimoto reexamines claims that modern East Asian literature was either a radical departure from preceding classical traditions or was directly grounded on those same national traditions. Instead, Hashimoto contends that this literature was haunted by its classical legacies while also being thoroughly transnational in its contemporary incarnations. -- Carlos Rojas, author of \u003ci\u003eHomesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpansive in scope and meticulous in detail, \u003ci\u003eAfterlives of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e revises the established view that modern literature emerged in East Asia as a thorough break with the region’s shared cultural past. It liberates the founding fathers of “national literatures” in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan from their imposed canonicity, and enlivens transregional and transtemporal aspects of their writerly practices. -- Youngju Ryu, author of \u003ci\u003eWriters of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy reuse, repetition, and parody, the authors in Satoru Hashimoto’s wide-ranging, meticulous, and original study made Asian modernity out of the ruins of their classical culture, as they dared to imagine freedom from old-style and new-style empires. Literary history in its complexity here illuminates the needs of the present. -- Haun Saussy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePutting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors in transnational dialogue, Satoru Hashimoto brilliantly delineates how East Asian writers grappled with Western modernity while forging their own modernity from local traditions. -- Ban Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eConventions\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: A Multilayered Contact Space in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Literature’s Search for Itself: Liang Qichao and Meiji Political Fiction\u003cbr\u003e2. Literature and Life in Exile: Sin Ch’aeho’s Engagement with Liang Qichao’s Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Reforming Language and Redefining “Literature”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Parody and Repetition: Rereading the Works of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu\u003cbr\u003e4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori Ōgai, and Yi Kwangsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Japan’s Imperial Mimicry and Its Critique\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Archaeology of Resistance: Zhou Zuoren’s Cultural Criticism in Wartime East Asia\u003cbr\u003e6. Transnational Allegory: Intertextualizing Lu Xun in Late Colonial Korean, Taiwanese, and Manchukuo Literatures\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400378949975,"sku":"9780231211536","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231211536.jpg?v=1730470547","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afterlives-of-letters-9780231211536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}