The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

by Michael Bourdaghs

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231129807
• ISBN13: 9780231129800
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher