{"product_id":"uchida-hyakken-rachel-dinitto-9780674031128","title":"Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, -zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children's stories. In discussing his oeuvre, critics have circumscribed Hyakken to a private literary realm detached from the era in which he wrote. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel DiNitto provides a critical corrective by locating in Hyakken's simple yet powerful literary language a new way to appreciate the various literary reactions to the modernization of the early decades of the twentieth century and a means to open up a literary space of protest, an alternate intellectual response to the era of militarism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book takes up Hyakken's fiction and essays written during Japan's prewar years to investigate the intersection of his literature with the material and discursive surroundings of the time: a consumer-oriented print culture; the popular entertainment of film; the capitalist and cultural force of an emergent middle class; a planned, yet sprawling metropolis; and the war machine of an expanding Japanese -empire. Emerging from this analysis is a writer who relied on the quotidian language of the everyday and the symbols of cultural modernism to counter the harsh realities of modernization and imperialism and to express sentiments contrary to the mainstream ideological rhetoric of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Dinitto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674031121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674031128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2008 pg. 25","brand":"Rachel Dinitto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096689352959,"sku":"9780674031128","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uchida-hyakken-rachel-dinitto-9780674031128","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}