Description
Book SynopsisConcealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a cultural category.
Trade Review"This is an important and groundbreaking study that should be of interest not only to specialists in Japanese modern literature but to scholars of literature generally. For specialists, the historically informed rereading of
The Essence of the Novel brings an important debate to an English-speaking audience. Ueda also offers a detailed and well-researched analysis of several novels that have not been translated and are rarely discussed, such as
The Characters of Modern Students. For nonspecialists, this is a fascinating case study of how the novel, which in a European context was a genre-defying style, becomes a genre-defining mode of writing in Japan and how a culture that has a nearly thousand-year tradition of ctional prose narratives encountered the Western novel and created literature as an academic subject." -- Deborah Shamoon *
Modern Philology *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xxx Notes on Japanese Names and Terms xxx 1. Introduction 1 2. The Genealogy of the Shosetsu: From Gesaku to "Shosetsu = Novel" 000 3. The Main Constituents of the Shosetsu: Shosetsu shinzui's Criticism of Bakin and "Depoliticization" 000 4. Constructing "Asia" and Imperial Longing 000 5. Tosei shosei katagi: The "Social" Shosetsu 000 6. Unraveling the Mechanism of Concealment: Historicizing Shosetsu shinzui 000 Afterword 000 Notes 000 Glossary 000 Works Cited 000 Index
