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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).
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).
This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese
philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its
founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime
(1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945).
Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and
dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential
thinkers to life by connecting their work to issues still debated
in the philosophy of science and physics today. Beginning with an
overview of the reception of quantum physics and relativity theory
in Japan and concluding with an account of the direct relevance of
the Kyoto School to the development of world philosophy in a
posthuman age, each clearly-written chapter engages historical
contexts and includes: * Carefully-chosen excerpts and original
translations of Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka * Focus boxes
explaining complex concepts and problems of contextualization * A
timeline, glossary and index * Further reading lists featuring
relevant and significant articles and books in English This
introduction is an ideal starting point for students and lecturers
looking to become better acquainted with three central Japanese
philosophers and learn why their work impacts our current thinking
about science.
This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese
philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its
founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime
(1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945).
Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and
dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential
thinkers to life by connecting their work to issues still debated
in the philosophy of science and physics today. Beginning with an
overview of the reception of quantum physics and relativity theory
in Japan and concluding with an account of the direct relevance of
the Kyoto School to the development of world philosophy in a
posthuman age, each clearly-written chapter engages historical
contexts and includes: * Carefully-chosen excerpts and original
translations of Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka * Focus boxes
explaining complex concepts and problems of contextualization * A
timeline, glossary and index * Further reading lists featuring
relevant and significant articles and books in English This
introduction is an ideal starting point for students and lecturers
looking to become better acquainted with three central Japanese
philosophers and learn why their work impacts our current thinking
about science.
Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan shows how
entitlements are implicated in all areas of life-human and
nonhuman-that poetry reaches. Through a creative adaptation of
Badiou's philosophical framing, this book argues that poetry
matters as a form of media particularly suited to integrating
diverse fields of knowledge and attention in newspapers, Tweets,
and performance as well as volumes of poetry. Recasting
intertextuality as more relational than referential, the author
argues for the importance of poetry in realizing how social change
and ecological justice are bound up in our orientations of
affiliation. Each chapter focuses on particular sets of problems
engaged by poets in different contexts to various ends in Japan,
the US, and Taiwan. Some chapters explore the subtle implications
of openly provocative styles, while others question the muted
poetic intimations of injustices that are left standing unchanged
in the name of aesthetics. Poets and performance artists featured
include Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Tawara Machi, Rodrigo Toscano,
Hung Hung, and John Cage. The author argues for examining poetic
expressions in terms of what discursive fusions and affiliations
they embody beyond the intimation of good intentions or ironic
passing over.
Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into
the relationship between cultural production, society, and the
environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as
well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their
perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest centers for promoting
ecocriticism outside the West and has continued to play a central
role in shaping ecocriticism in East Asia. This is the first
English anthology dedicated to the vibrant development of
ecocriticism in Taiwan. It provides a window to Taiwan's important
contributions to international ecocriticism, especially an emerging
"vernacular" trend in the field emphasizing the significance of
local perspectives and styles, including non-western vocabularies,
aesthetics, cosmologies, and political ideologies. Taiwan's unique
history, geographic location, geology, and subtropical climate
generate locale-specific, vernacular thinking about island ecology
and environmental history, as well as global environmental issues
such as climate change, dioxin pollution, species extinction,
energy decisions, pollution, and environmental injustice. In
hindsight, Taiwan's industrial modernization no longer appears as a
success narrative among Asia's "Four Little Dragons," but as a
cautionary tale revealing the brute force entrepreneurial
exploitation of the land and the people. In this light, this volume
can be seen as a critical response to Taiwan's postcolonial,
capitalist-industrial modernity, as manifested in the scholars'
readings of Taiwan's "mountain and river," ocean, animal, and
aboriginal (non)fictional narratives, environmental documentaries,
and art installations. This volume is endowed with a mixture of
ecocosmopolitan and indigenous sensitivities. Though dominated by
the Han Chinese ethnic group and its Confucian ideology, Taiwan is
a place of complicated ethnic identities and affiliations. The
succession of changing colonial and political regimes, made even
more complex by the island's sixteen aboriginal groups and several
diasporic subcultures (South Asian immigrants, Western expatriates,
and diverse immigrants from the Chinese mainland), has led to an
ongoing quest for political and cultural identity. This complexity
urges Taiwan-based ecoscholars to pay attention to the diasporic,
comparative, and intercultural dimensions of local specificity,
either based on their own diasporic experience or the cosmopolitan
features of the Taiwanese texts they scrutinize. This
cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic is a key contribution Taiwan has to
offer current ecocritical scholarship.
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