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Author Ueda, Atsuko, author.

Title Language, nation, race : linguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) / Atsuko Ueda.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series New interventions in Japanese studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Competing "languages" : "sound" in the orthographic reforms of early Meiji Japan -- Sound, scripts, and styles : Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan -- Zoku as aesthetic criterion : reforms for poetry and prose -- Racializing the national language : Ueda Kazutoshi's Kokugo reform -- Tropes of racialization in the works of Natsume Sseki.
Summary "Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when "national language" (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses with the new forms of Western knowledge. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that arose in the 1990s and that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Japanese language -- Reform -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Language policy -- Japan -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Nationalism -- Japan -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japan -- Race relations -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japonais (Langue) -- Réforme -- 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Nationalisme -- Japon -- 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Japon -- Relations raciales -- 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
History / Asia / Japan.
Literary Collections / Asian / Japanese.
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Race relations
Japan
Chronological Term 1868-1912
Other Form: Print version: Ueda, Atsuko. Language, nation, race Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520381711 (DLC) 2020046901
ISBN 0520381726
9780520381728 (electronic bk.)
9780520381711 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000069972049
AU@ 000068387039
AU@ 000074146829

 
    
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