Language, Nation, Race - Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) (Paperback)

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a "national language" (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Interventions in Japanese Studies, 1
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Atsuko Ueda
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-38171-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-38171-8
Barcode:	9780520381711

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