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Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and
irreversibly changing world in which industrialization,
westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon
an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt
threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and
military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this
challenge than was thought at the time, and they used a variety of
strategies to address the tension between modernity and tradition.
Inexorable Modernity illuminates our understanding of how Japan has
dealt with modernity and of what mechanisms, universal and local,
we can attribute to the mode of negotiation between tradition and
modernity in three major forms of art-theater, the visual arts, and
literature. Dr. Hiroshi Nara brings together a thoughtful
collection of essays that demonstrate that traditional and modern
approaches to life feed off of one other, and tradition, whether
real or created, was sought out in order to find a way to live with
the burden of modernity. Inexorable Modernity is a valuable and
enlightening read for those interested in Asian studies and
history.
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