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Japanese Poetry and Its Publics - From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Hardcover)
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Japanese Poetry and Its Publics - From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonial Politics
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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 moments in
an original recasting of intertextuality as a vital feature of
active inter-evental material engagements. In this book, rather
than recite a standard survey of literary movements and key poets,
the approach taken is to examine uses of poetry shown not only to
support colonialism and imperialism, emerging objectionable forms
of exploitation as well as the destruction of ecologies (including
old-growth forests in Taiwan and the Fukushima Disaster), but also
to present a medium of resistance, a minor literature for
registering protest, forming transnational affiliations, and
promoting grass-roots democracy. The book is based on years of
research and fieldwork partially in conjunction with the production
of a documentary film, Horizons of the Rising Sun: Postcolonial
Nostalgia and Politics in the Taiwan Tanka Association Today
(2017).
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