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The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan - Histories and Cultures of the Book (Hardcover)
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The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan - Histories and Cultures of the Book (Hardcover)
Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
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The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of
literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present,
considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary
content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources
to be packaged, promoted, and preserved. As the printed word became
a crucial form of entertainment and edification for an increasingly
literate public in early 20th-century Japan, literature came to
assume a variety of new uses. Touching upon a wide array of
sources, Sari Kawana traces the ways in which literary works have
morphed into different variants, ranging from textual
(compilations, textbooks) and visual (film, manga, other media) to
virtual and real world, through innovative publishing and reading
practices. She takes up themes such as the materiality of texts,
the role of publishers and advertising campaigns, the interplay
between literature and other media, and the creation and
dissemination of larger cultural fantasies tied to literary
consumption. She stresses the agency and creativity with which
readers engaged literary works, from divergent readings of
propaganda literature to inventive adaptations of canonical texts
in adjacent media, culminating in the practice of literary tourism.
Moving beyond close reading of texts to look at their historical
context, the book will appeal not only to scholars of modern
Japanese literature but also those studying the history of the book
and modern Japanese cultural history.
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