1st Edition

Japanese Poetry and its Publics From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima

By Dean Anthony Brink Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

  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... Read more

Introduction: Japanese Poetry and its Publics



Chapter One: Japanese Imperialism and Poetic Matrices – Conventional and Autopoietic Projections of "Nature," Place, and Labor in Early Colonial Taiwan



Chapter Two: Transculturation and Extreme Intertextuality—Taiwanese Poets in the New Year’s Day Poetry Pages of Colonial Taiwan



Chapter Three: Nativist Legacies of Desinicization and Nationalist Sentiment in Poetry During the Second Sino-Japanese War



Chapter Four: The Long View of Colonial Regimes: The Taiwan Tanka Association’s Poetry of Witness



Chapter Five: Postcolonial Affiliation after 3.11: Hyperobjects and Inter-evental Entanglement in the Taiwan Tanka Association



Chapter Six: Poetry Blogs and Posthuman Archives in Postcolonial Taiwan



Appendix



Index

Biography

Dean Anthony Brink, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University