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Author Long, Hoyt

Title On Uneven Ground : Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; A Note on Naming; Prologue: Making Place for the Author; Part One: Thinking The Local; Part Two: The Marginal Case And The Texture Of Locality; Part Three: The New Roles of Local Engagement; Epilogue: Trading Places; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). While alive, he remained a mostly unknown and unread provincial author whose experiments with narrative fiction, amateur theater, and farmer's art reveal an intense determination to reimagine and remake his native place, in the northeast of Japan, meaningful. Today, Miyazawa
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Subject Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933 fast
Subject Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Japanese literature
Literature and society
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804778886
0804778884