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Modernism, Media, and Daily Life Modernism, Media, and Daily Life
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Modernism and the I-Novel Modernism and the I-Novel
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The I-Novel as Social Text The I-Novel as Social Text
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The I-Novel and Realism The I-Novel and Realism
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Historicizing Modernism Historicizing Modernism
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Modernism versus Modanizumu Modernism versus Modanizumu
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Deconstructing the “East/West” Binary Deconstructing the “East/West” Binary
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Introduction Shattering the Status Quo: Reading Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
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Published:October 2020
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Abstract
This introductory chapter provides an overview of how literary modernism operated in Japan, looking at the works of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Contrary to prevalent conceptions of high modernism as art-objects sequestered from the utilitarian language of capitalist society, modernist literature was highly enmeshed in the language of the mass print media, one of the major sources of social ideology since the beginning of the twentieth century. The works of the four Japanese authors disrupt the ideologies that made daily living appear seamless and comfortable. They did so to expose the way such norms were bolstered by narrow, constrictive, and essentialist notions of gender, ethnicity, society, and nation; to reveal the way such norms were employed to discipline the minds and behaviors of Japanese citizens; and finally to provoke cognitive and sensational liberation from the supremacy of these norms. The chapter then considers the emergence and establishment of the I-novel genre in Japanese literary history, as well as the phenomenon of modanizumu.
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