Under an Imperial Sun examines literary, linguistic, and cultural representations of Japan's colonial South (nanpô)
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imperialism and Textuality
Part I. Writing the Empire
1. The Genealogy of the “South”
2. Taming the Barbaric
3. Writers in the South
Part II .Colonial Desire and Ambivalence
4. Nishikawa Mitsuru and Bungei Taiwan
5. Gender, Historiography, and Romantic Colonialism
Part III. The Empire Writes Back
6. Language Policy and Cultural Identity
7. The Nativist Response
8. Imperial-Subject Literature and Its Discontents
Conclusion: A Voice Reclaimed
Epilogue: Postcolonial Refractions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author