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Author Mason, Michele

Title Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan : envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state / Michele M. Mason
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 232 pages)
Contents Introduction: Peripheral visions: reimagining colonial Hokkaido -- Harvesting history: modern narratives for patriotic pioneers and the imperial military -- Writing Ainu out: the nature of Japanese colonialism in Hokkaido -- Political protest and penal colonies: narrating the transformation of national identity and literature -- A pantheon of promises: fantasies of freedom and capitalist dreams -- Contested sites of an enduring colonial past -- Epilogue
Summary The first literary-cultural studies project on modern Hokkaido, this study examines the problematic ways dominant narratives cast Japanese as the main characters, agents, and even victims of the modernization process, perpetuating a number of intransigent and troubling erasures. Michele M. Mason recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire. Critical readings of the textual and historical foundations of the (his)stories illustrate how representations of the island's colonization both obfuscate the devastating consequences on the Indigenous Ainu and define the nascent nation-state of Japan as a timeless, unified, civilized entity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Japanese literature -- Japan -- Hokkaido -- History and criticism
National characteristics, Japanese.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
Japanese.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Japanese
Civilization
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Japanese literature
National characteristics, Japanese
SUBJECT Hokkaido (Japan) -- Civilization
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489
Subject Japan
Japan -- Hokkaido
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137330888
1137330880
9781349450251
1349450251