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Titre: Language, Nation, Race
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
ISBN-10: 0520381718
EAN: 9780520381711
ISBN: 9780520381711
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Poche
Date de publication: 2021-06-01
Description: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the “nation,” for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.

Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 229
Item Length: 152.00
Item Width: 13.00
Poids: 272g
Auteur: Atsuko Ueda
Genre: Language & Reference
Série: New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Sujet: History, Literary Criticism
Année de publication: 2021

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