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Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature – Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Autor Edward Mack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2010
Emphasizing that literary value is shaped not just by intrinsic artistic merit but also by modes of book production, promotion, and consumption, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated in Tokyo, the city’s literary and publishing elites came to dominate the dissemination and preservation of Japanese literature. As Mack explains, they conferred cultural value on particular works by creating prizes, series, and anthologies that signalled literary merit and helped to cultivate the idea of a distinctly Japanese modern literature. One such series, the Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature (published between 1926 and 1931) provided many readers with their first experience of selected texts designated as modern Japanese literature. Its low price of one yen per volume allowed the subscription-based series to reach a wide audience; at its peak, nearly 350,000 people subscribed. The first major prize for modern Japanese literature, the annual Akutagawa Prize, was announced in 1934; it remains the country’s highest-profile literary award. Mack chronicles the history of book production and consumption in Japan, tracing the advancements in technology, the expansion of a market for literary commodities, and the development of an extensive reading community that enabled phenomena such as the Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature and the Akutagawa Prize to manufacture the very concept of modern Japanese literature.
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ISBN-13: 9780822346722
ISBN-10: 0822346729
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 17 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 168 x 233 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society


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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Publishing and the Creation of an Alternate Economy of Value; 1. Modernity as Rupture: The Concentration of Print Capital; 2. The Stability of the Center: Tokyo Publishing and the Great Kanto Earthquake; 3. The Static Canon: Kaizosha’s Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature; 4. Defining and Defending Literary Value: Debates, 1919–1935; 5. The Dynamic Canon: The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature; EpilogueAppendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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“Edward Mack pulls the Japanese literary field out of the regressive myth of autonomous art and into the realms of social discourse and material practice. He compels us to reconsider the role of literary production and publishing in constructing concepts of cultural authority, national identity, and empire. Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature is a rich, rewarding work.”—Ann Sherif, author of Japan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law

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"Edward Mack pulls the Japanese literary field out of the regressive myth of autonomous art and into the realms of social discourse and material practice. He compels us to reconsider the role of literary production and publishing in constructing concepts of cultural authority, national identity, and empire. "Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature" is a rich, rewarding work."--Ann Sherif, author of "Japan's Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law"

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An examination of the role of Japan’s publishing industry in determining what counted as modern Japanese literature