{"product_id":"concealment-of-politics-politics-of-concealment-the-production-of-literature-in-meiji-japan-9780804757782","title":"Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of Literature in Meiji Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Atsuko Ueda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Japanese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is \"literature?\" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. \u003ci\u003eConcealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm-shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a cultural category. Literature emerged out of ongoing negotiations with modernizing and globalizing impulses that governed Meiji Japan (1868-1912). This complex process is too often concealed by literary studies that assume that Japanese literary modernity began with Tsubouchi Shōyō's \u003ci\u003eThe Essence of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1885-6). This view has long confined the discussion of literature to very narrow terms. By recasting the Shōyō's work in the political and intellectual domains, \u003ci\u003eConcealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment\u003c\/i\u003e not only explores the interaction of different discourses in 1880s Japan but offers a rigorous critique of our own approaches to the history of modern Japanese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611815264407,"sku":"9780804757782","price":8186.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804757782.webp?v=1775073077","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/concealment-of-politics-politics-of-concealment-the-production-of-literature-in-meiji-japan-9780804757782","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}