{"product_id":"concealment-of-politics-politics-of-atsuko-ueda-9780804757782","title":"Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of Literature in Meiji Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is \"literature?\" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. \u003ci\u003eConcealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm-shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a cultural category. Literature emerged out of ongoing negotiations with modernizing and globalizing impulses that governed Meiji Japan (1868-1912). This complex process is too often concealed by literary studies that assume that Japanese literary modernity began with Tsubouchi Shōyō's \u003ci\u003eThe Essence of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1885-6). This view has long confined the discussion of literature to very narrow terms. By recasting the Shōyō's work in the political and intellectual domains, \u003ci\u003eConcealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment\u003c\/i\u003e not only explores the interaction of different discourses in 1880s Japan but offers a rigorous critique of our own approaches to the history of modern Japanese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Atsuko Ueda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080475778X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804757782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 308","brand":"Atsuko Ueda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059762426111,"sku":"9780804757782","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cfd68f3-97f9-4b3c-b861-8cb0bcd44b2b.jpg?v=1685060183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concealment-of-politics-politics-of-atsuko-ueda-9780804757782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}