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Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity - The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris (Paperback)
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Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity - The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris (Paperback)
Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia
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This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling
genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and
then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only
on "the transcultural site"-transcultural in the sense of breaking
the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national
and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside
and outside. To illustrate the concept of transcultural modernity,
three icons are highlighted on the transcultural site: the dandy,
the flaneur, and the translator. Mere flaneurs and flaneurses
simply float with the tide of heterogeneous information on the
transcultural site, whereas the dandy/flaneur and the cultural
translator, propellers of modernity, manage to bring about
transformative creation. Their performance marks the essence of
transcultural modernity: the self-consciousness of working on the
threshold, always testing the limits of boundaries and tempted to
go beyond them. To develop the concept of dandyism-the quintessence
of transcultural modernity-the Neo-Sensation gender triad formed by
the dandy, the modern girl, and the modern boy is laid out. Writers
discussed include Liu Na'ou, a Shanghai dandy par excellence from
Taiwan, Paul Morand, who looked upon Coco Chanel the female dandy
as his perfect other self, and Yokomitsu Riichi, who developed the
theory of Neo-Sensation from Kant's the-thing-in-itself.
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