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In A Sense of the City , Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Shōwa period. She argues that Kafū’s urban critique was based on his awareness of the cultural sedimentation of the cityscape and of the complex relationship that it bore with the historical framework of modern Japan. With the overall aim to define Kafū’s position within pre-war Japanese literature, Follaco touches upon key issues such as memory, class difference, and language ideologies; draws connections between his sojourn abroad and strategies of “mapping” the city of Tokyo in his literature; and takes into account works previously understudied, including his biography of Washizu Kidō and his photographs.
Cities and towns in literature. --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Nagai, Sōkichi --- Kafu, Nagai --- 永井荷風 --- 永井苛風 --- 永井荷风 --- 永开荷風 --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Describes how writer Nagai Kafu(1879-1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.
Civilization, Western, in literature --- East and West in literature --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Nagai, Sōkichi --- Kafu, Nagai --- 永井荷風 --- 永井苛風 --- 永井荷风 --- 永开荷風 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Japan --- In literature. --- Civilization, Western, in literature. --- East and West in literature. --- Literature. --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Japan. --- J4127 --- J4129 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social identity and self --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the shattering end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writersincluding Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taikoand the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vividly, though privately, expressed.Donald Keene, renowned scholar of Japan, selects from these diaries, some written by authors he knew well. Their revelations were sometimes poignant, sometimes shocking to Keene. Ito Sei's fervent patriotism and even claims of racial superiority stand in stark contrast to the soft-spoken, kindly man Keene knew. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, Keene reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. Whether detailed or fragmentary, these entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.
Authors, Japanese --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- Literature and the war. --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Takami, Jun, --- Yamada, Fūtarō, --- Yamada, Fuhtaro, --- Yamada, Seiya, --- Yamada, Kazetarō, --- 山田風太郎, --- Takama, Yoshio, --- 高見順, --- Nagai, Sōkichi --- Kafu, Nagai --- 永井荷風 --- 永井苛風 --- 永井荷风 --- 永开荷風 --- 高間芳雄,
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Neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three, Kafū the Scribbler is an introduction to Nagai Kafū and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works.
J2284.70 --- J5500.70 --- J5931 --- 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 --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Nagai, Sōkichi --- Kafu, Nagai --- 永井荷風 --- 永井苛風 --- 永井荷风 --- 永开荷風 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- In literature. --- Literary collections. --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- Nagai, Kafū
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