{"product_id":"colonizing-language-9780231184205","title":"Colonizing Language","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Yi investigates linguistic nationalism in the formation of literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColonizing Language\u003c\/i\u003e adds an important and most readable, yet sophisticated discussion to the growing body of colonial and postcolonial studies, and particularly to that in the field of Korean literature of this period. * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eChristina Yi’s fascinating book narrates the prehistory of the popular Japanese-language literary works written by ethnically Korean writers today. Yi’s careful readings show how the linguistic dilemmas faced by Japan’s colonial subjects became an inheritance that could not be simply returned despite the collapse of empire. A must-read for anyone interested in questions of postcolonialism and language. -- Janet Poole, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003eChristina Yi’s \u003ci\u003eColonizing Language \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a wide-ranging overview of the emergence and development of Japanese-language writings by Korean writers from the colonial through postcolonial periods. Based on meticulous archival research of Korean, Japanese, and English-language sources, and effectively weaving together historical analysis with close literary readings, it promises to be an authoritative text in the field. -- Sejii Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eBy probing into Japanese-language cultural productions by ethnic Koreans and diasporic Japanese across the 1945 divide, \u003ci\u003eColonizing Language\u003c\/i\u003e reveals and deconstructs the multiple borders that have become naturalized and interiorized in the formation of national language and national literary canons in both Japan and Korea. The book is essential to our rethinking of ‘Japanese’ and ‘Korean’ languages and literatures, and its theoretical sophistication deserves an even wider appeal and application outside of East Asian studies. -- Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003eYi’s nuanced analysis of primary texts proves her prowess as a literary scholar. She expertly unearths traces of the colonial past lurking in literary texts to question the dominant idea of ‘national language’ in Japan and South Korea, which is indispensable to the equally dominant idea of the homogeneous ethnic nation in the two countries. -- Serk-Bae Suh, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003eInsightful and elegant. Her book can be recommended to all students of social studies, sociolinguistics, the history of thought, and of course literary studies. * Japan Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Names, Terminology, and Translations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. National Language Ideology in the Age of Empire\u003cbr\u003e2. “Let Me In!”: Imperialization in Metropolitan Japan\u003cbr\u003e3. Envisioning a Literature of the Imperial Nation\u003cbr\u003e4. Coming to Terms with the Terms of the Past\u003cbr\u003e5. Colonial Legacies and the Divided “I” in Occupation-Period Japan\u003cbr\u003e6. Collaboration, Wartime Responsibility, and Colonial Memory\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Korean Authors and Literary Critics\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400322752855,"sku":"9780231184205","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231184205.jpg?v=1730470385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonizing-language-9780231184205","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}