Language Nation Race Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan 1868 1912 1st Edition by Atsuko Ueda ISBN B092D3CR5P 6V4OEAAAQBAJ

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ISBN 10: B092D3CR5P 
ISBN 13: 6V4OEAAAQBAJ
Author: Atsuko Ueda

Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. 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. 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 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.

Language Nation Race Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan 1868 1912 1st Table of contents:

Part I: “Pre-Nation”: Linguistic Chaos

• Chapter 1: Competing “Languages”: “Sound” in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan
• Chapter 2: Sound, Scripts, and Styles: Kanbun kundokutai and the National Language Reforms of 1880s Japan
• Chapter 3: Zoku as Aesthetic Criterion: Reforms for Poetry and Prose

Part II: Race and Language Reform

• Chapter 4: Racializing the National Language: Ueda Kazutoshi’s Kokugo Reform

• Chapter 5: Tropes of Racialization in the Works of Natsume Sōseki

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