Description
Book Synopsis
This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan.
Though classical Japanese poetry has captivated the imagination of Asian studies scholars, little research has been conducted to explore its role in public life as a discourse influential in defining both the modern Japanese empire and contemporary postcolonial negotiations of identity. This book shows how highly visible poetry in regular newspaper columns and blogs have in various historical situations in Japan and colonial Taiwan contested as well as promoted diverse colonial imaginaries. This poetry reflects both contemporary life and traditional poetics with few counterpoints in Western media. Methodologically, this book offers a defense of the public influence of poetry, each chapter enlisting a wide range of social and media theorists from Japan, Europe, and North America to explore specific historical mom
Table of Contents
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
