Japanese Imperialism in Contemporary English Fiction
From Dejima to Malaya
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 stu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-981-1504-62-4
- EAN: 9789811504624
- Produktnummer: 32920281
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 91 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'505 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Ching-chih Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University, Taiwan. She graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University and her PhD focused on the development of the Japanese empire and Sino-Japanese wars. She specializes in contemporary English novels study, postcolonial studies and Japan in British fiction.
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