Japanese Writers and the West
This book concludes Sumie Okada's trilogy concerning cultural relationships between Japan and the West. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their tr
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Japanese Writers and the West
Also by Sumie Okada EDMUND BLUNDEN AND JAPAN: The History of a Relationship WESTERN WRITERS IN JAPAN
Japanese Writers and the West Sumie Okada
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© 5umie Okada 2003
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DOI 10.1057/9780230596504
This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Okada, Sumie, 1940Japanese writers and the west / 5umie Okada. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-333-74310-5 1. Japanese literature - 20th century - History and criticism. 2. Japanese literature - Western influences. 3. Authors, Japanese 20th century. 4. Individualism in literature. I. Title. Pl726.55.05187 895.6'090044 - dc21 2002044812 10 12
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Contents Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 ‘Failed Individualism’ Observed in Japan: the Novels of Soseki Natsume (1867–1916) Soseki’s possible experience of racial prejudice during his visit to London, as a backdrop to the novel I Am a Cat Soseki and his interpretation of Western individualism Soseki’s application of his theory of individualism in his work Kokoro (Mind) English influences on Soseki’s writing in Kokoro ‘Individualism-plus’ – Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle 2 The Visit by Hiroshi Yosano (1873–1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) to France and England in 1912 Hiroshi Yosano’s observations of Western individualism, and his adoration of it, despite his identification with the group: From Paris Akiko Yosano’s opinions
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