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Author Ishihara, Tsuyoshi, 1971-

Title Mark Twain in Japan : the cultural reception of an American icon / Tsuyoshi Ishihara
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 178 pages) : illustrations
Series Mark Twain and his circle series
Mark Twain and his circle series.
Contents What happened to Huck? : Kuni Sasaki's translation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain in wartime Japan : the Samurai version of The prince and the pauper -- Mark Twain in postwar Japan : juvenile translations and school textbooks -- Japanese animations of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Summary "Explores the history of Mark Twain's reception in Japan in the spheres of books, children's magazines, and anime, the impact of Japanese translations on Twain's public image, how Japanese culture has transformed Japanese versions of Twain's works, and how Japan is culturally influenced by America and America by Japan"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Appreciation -- Japan
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Translations into Japanese -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast
Subject American literature -- Appreciation -- Japan
Japanese literature -- American influences
Books and reading -- Japan -- History
Criticism -- Japan -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Appreciation
Art appreciation
Books and reading
Criticism
Japanese literature -- American influences
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 082626476X
9780826264763
0826215904
9780826215901