A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, "The
Dawn That Never Comes" offers the most detailed reading to date in
English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and
novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872--1943). It also reveals how
Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form
of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century
Japan.
Analyzing Toson's major works, Michael K. Bourdaghs demonstrates
that the construction of national imagination requires a complex
interweaving of varied -- and sometimes contradictory -- figures
for imagining the national community. Many scholars have shown, for
example, that modern hygiene has functioned in nationalist thought
as a method of excluding foreign others as diseased. This study
explores the multiple images of illness appearing in Toson's
fiction to demonstrate that hygiene employs more than one model of
pathology, and it reveals how this multiplicity functioned to
produce the combinations of exclusion and assimilation required to
sustain a sense of national community.
Others have argued that nationalism is inherently ambivalent and
self-contradictory; Bourdaghs shows more concretely both how this
is so and why it is necessary and provides, in the process, a new
way of thinking about national imagination. Individual chapters
take up such issues as modern medicine and the discourses of
national health; ideologies of the family and its representation in
modern literary works; the gendering of the canon of national
literature; and the multiple forms of space and time that
narratives of national history require.
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