Introduction : empire, transculturation, and literary contact nebulae -- Travel, readerly contact, and writerly contact in the Japanese empire -- Transcultural literary criticism in the Japanese empire -- Multiple vectors and early interlingual transculturations of Japanese literature -- From cultural innovation to total war -- Intertextuality, empire and East Asia -- Spotlight on suffering -- Reconceptualizing relationships : individuals, families, nations -- Questions of agency : raising responsibility, parodying persistence, and rethinking reform -- Epilogue : postwar intra-East Asian dialogues and the future of negotiating transculturally
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