Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature

by Stephen Dodd

This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place ( furusato ) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s witnessed the appearance of fictional works describing a city dweller who returns to his native place, where he reflects on the evils of urban life and the idyllic past of his childhood home. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016521
• ISBN13: 9780674016521
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"