Overview
Analyzes the rise of Japanese imperialism through contemporary literature
Examines how a nation’s anxiety for unification justified invasion and colonisation
Showcases the relevance of literature in understanding memory, legacy and war
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Deceptions
- Japanese Imperialism in British Fiction
- Trauma and Japanese Imperialism
- Colonial Legacy, Diasporic Literature and Postcolonial Discourse
- Japanese Imperialism as a Literary Trope
- David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng
- PTSD Theory and Contemporary British Fiction
- The Rise of Japanese Imperialism
- Culture, Governmentality, Violence and Peace
About this book
This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to peace. Using David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Tan Twang Eng’s The Garden of the Evening Mists and Kazuo Ishiguro’s work to examine Japanese militarists’ tactics of usurpation and how Japanese imperialism reached out to the grass-root public and turned into a fundamental belief in colonial invasion and imperial expansion, the book provides an in depth study of trauma, memory and war. From studying the rise of Japanese imperialism to Japan’s legitimization of colonial invasion, in addition to the devastating consequences of imperialism on both the colonizers and the colonized, the book provides a literary, discursive context to re-examine the forces of civilization which will appeal to all those interested in diasporic literature and postcolonial discourse, and the continued relevance of literature in understanding memory, legacy and war.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Imperialism in Contemporary English Fiction
Book Subtitle: From Dejima to Malaya
Authors: Ching-chih Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0462-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0461-7Published: 18 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0462-4Published: 02 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 91
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, History of Japan, Postcolonial/World Literature, Imperialism and Colonialism