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What happens when a critique of modernity a revolt against the traditionsof the Western world is situated within a nonEuropean context where theconcept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of Japanesemodernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. Through close readings of fourleading figures of this movement Akutagawa Yokomitsu Kawabata and Hayashi Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for theanalysis of Japanese modernism.The 1920s and 1930s witnessed a general sense of crisis surrounding theinstitution of literature marked by both the radical politicization ofliterary practice and the explosion of new forms of cultural productionrepresented by mass culture. Against this backdrop this study traces theheterogeneous literary topographies of modernist writings. Through anengagement with questions of representation subjectivity and ideology itsituates the disintegration of literary form in these texts within the writersexploration of the fluid borderlines of Japanese modernity. «
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