A Tokyo Anthology by Sumie Jones (.ePUB)
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A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920 edited by Sumie Jones and Charles Shirō (Shiro) Inouye
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Overview: The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology―including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons―tells the story of how the city’s literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese “modernity.”
Tokyo’s downtown audience constituted a market that demanded visuality and spectacle, while the educated uptown favored written, realistic literature. The literary products resulting from these conflicting consumer bases were therefore hybrid entities of old and new technologies. A Tokyo Anthology guides the reader through Japanese literature’s journey from classical to spoken, pictocentric to logocentric, and fantastic to realistic―making the novel the dominant form of modern literature. The volume highlights not only familiar masterpieces but also lesser known examples chosen from the city’s downtown life and counterculture.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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