Title Japanese Poetry and its Publics : From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima / Dean Anthony Brink

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) Series Postcolonial Politics ; Volume 10 Postcolonial politics ; Volume 10. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Japanese poetry and its publics -- Typological intertextuality and ontologies of postcolonial affiliation in Japanese poetry -- 1 Japanese imperialism and poetic matrices: Conventional and autopoietic projections of â#x80;#x9C;nature, â#x80;#x9D; place, and labor in early colonial Taiwan -- Posthuman autopoiesis and the poetics of traditional Japanese form poetry in colonial contexts -- Autopoietic inspiration: Love of virtual nature and the colonial economy New poetic place names and the imperial naming of NıtakayamaJapanese poetry on Nıtakayama -- Japanese poetic place names -- Jade Mountain in the â#x80;#x9C;Song of Taiwanese Self-ruleâ#x80;#x9D; -- The poetic matrix and its codifications in saijiki -- Infusing an imperial aura: â#x80;#x9C;chrysanthemums in the shrineâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;wild chrysanthemumsâ#x80;#x9D; -- Aestheticizing labor of the colonized: â#x80;#x9C;evening in a fishing villageâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;buying flowersâ#x80;#x9D; -- 2 Transculturation and typological intertextuality: Taiwanese poets in the New Yearâ#x80;#x99;s Day poetry pages of colonial Taiwan Questions of mimicry and transculturation for colonial subjects writing poetryJapanese commentary on tanka by Taiwaneseâ#x80;#x94;The tendency toward exclusion -- Keeping the invasion of China within a Japanese perspective in Taiwan: â#x80;#x9C;times of emergencyâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;Lakeshore cranesâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;the Pacific Oceanâ#x80;#x9D; -- The fall of Nanjing in newspaper poetry -- Conclusion -- 3 Nativist legacies of desinicization and nationalist sentiment in poetry during the second Sino-Japanese War -- The familiar lie: Liberation by a superior power -- The Nativist legacy in imperialist poetry Poems by Yamakawa Hiroshi4 The long view of colonial regimes: The Taiwan Tanka Associationâ#x80;#x99;s poetry of witness -- Historical origins: The Taipei kadan in Cold War Taiwan -- The contemporary Taiwan Tanka Association -- Joining the Taiwan Tanka Association -- From submission to publication in the Taiwan Tanka Association -- Sunflower Movement tanka -- Cheng Lang-yao and others -- Tsai Kun-tsanâ#x80;#x94;current representative -- Scooters and motorcycles -- Huang Min-Huiâ#x80;#x99;s scooter sequence 5 Postcolonial affiliation after 3.11: Hyperobjects and inter-evental entanglement in the Taiwan Tanka AssociationFrom Blanchot to Badiou: Disaster as indiscernible multiple -- From colonial hyperobjects to inter-evental affiliation: Affective intensities in the triple disaster and imperial childhoods -- Poems on nuclear fears in Taiwan from the same volume -- Conclusion -- 6 Poetry blogs and posthuman archives in postcolonial Taiwan -- Blog assemblages in postcolonial Taiwan -- Chiau-Shin Ngo and the posthuman in postcolonial haiku Summary "?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)."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Japanese poetry -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Japan Public art -- Japan Mass media and literature -- Japan National characteristics, Japanese, in literature. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Japanese poetry Literature and society Mass media and literature National characteristics, Japanese, in literature Public art Japan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203730447 0203730445 1351397710 9781351397711 1351397702 9781351397704

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