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A superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction as well as a memoir of his own love affair with Japanese literature and culture, this volume consists of chapters on five modern Japanese novelists whom Donald Keene knew personally: Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Ryotaro Shiba, and Kobo Abe. Each chapter opens with a vignette describing Keene's personal encounters with these famous men, blending his autobiographical observations with literary and cultural analysis.

Japanese fiction --- Authors, Japanese --- History and criticism. --- J2284.70 --- J5500.70 --- J5931 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japanese fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Authors, Japanese - 20th century

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Japanese literature --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- Littérature japonaise --- Fantastique dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- J5930 --- J5500.70 --- J5509 --- J4144 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism --- Littérature japonaise --- Fantastique dans la littérature --- Fantasy literature [Japanese ] --- 20th century

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A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Analyzing Toson's major works, Michael K. Bourdaghs demonstrates that the construction of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied-and sometimes contradictory-figures for imagining the national community. Many scholars have shown, for example, that modern hygiene has functioned in nationalist thought as a method of excluding foreign others as diseased. This study explores the multiple images of illness appearing in Toson's fiction to demonstrate that hygiene employs more than one model of pathology, and it reveals how this multiplicity functioned to produce the combinations of exclusion and assimilation required to sustain a sense of national community. Others have argued that nationalism is inherently ambivalent and self-contradictory; Bourdaghs shows more concretely both how this is so and why it is necessary and provides, in the process, a new way of thinking about national imagination. Individual chapters take up such issues as modern medicine and the discourses of national health; ideologies of the family and its representation in modern literary works; the gendering of the canon of national literature; and the multiple forms of space and time that narratives of national history require.

J5931 --- J5500.70 --- J4122 --- J2284.70 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Nationalism in literature. --- Shimazaki, Tōson, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nationalism in literature --- Shimazaki, Tōson, --- Shimazaki, Haruki, --- Simadzaki-Toson, --- Tōson, --- Simadzaki, Toson, --- Tao-chʻi, Tʻeng-tsʻun, --- 岛崎藤村, --- 島埼藤村, --- 島崎籐村, --- 島崎藤村, --- 島琦藤村,

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J5930 --- J5500.70 --- Individualism in literature --- Japanese fiction --- -Japanese literature --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- History and criticism --- Individualism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Shimazaki, Tōsōn, --- Shimazaki, Haruki, --- Simadzaki-Toson, --- Tōson, --- Simadzaki, Toson, --- Tao-chʻi, Tʻeng-tsʻun, --- 岛崎藤村, --- 島埼藤村, --- 島崎籐村, --- 島崎藤村, --- 島琦藤村, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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J2284.70 --- J5500.70 --- J5710 --- J5730 --- J5931 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- haiku, haikai --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Masaoka, Shiki, --- Shiki, --- Dassai Shooku Shujin, --- Upasaka Shiki, --- Cheng-kang, Tzu-kuei, --- Masaokʻa, Sikʻi, --- 正岡子規, --- 正冈子规, --- Criticism and interpretation.