The Letters of Arishima Takeo to Tilda Heck : Unchanging Love in a World of Change
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Shin / A Narrative of Those on the Move 213 A NARRATIVE OF THOSE ON THE MOVE The Case of Takeo Arishima Inseop Shin The Center for Asia & Diaspora Konkuk University [email protected] Abstract Takeo Arishima, a Japanese writer in the early 20th century, has a style of writing that is distinct from the other writers of Japan at the time. Hiswork demands a deeper contemplation of the conflicts that take placein the borderlands of cultures.This aspect makes up for the apparent limitedness in the quality of Japanese novels in the early modern period characterized by a lack of interest in life outside the national territory. Dealingwith issues concerning migration and Japan’s imitation of the West, A Certain Woman underscores the conflicts at the point of contact between Japan and the West. As the novel focuses on “migration as conflict,” Arishima faces the “mirror,” reflecting the imagined “West.”By using the motif of migration, the novel exposes the Japanese “Western complex,” a blind imitation of the Westthat is mostly obscured in modern Japanese literature. The significance found in the novel is in its view of the West as a mirror reflecting Japan, and conversely using Japan as a mirror to imagine the West. For the heroine of the novel, the people of the United States are the standard by which to measure up oneself. Imagining herself in the way the Americans might look at her, she has internalized Orientalism, a captive of the mirror that is the United States. If the fashionable society of the United States of America is an imagined West, diaspora is the narrative of an individual who has to leave her home behind to settle there. -
Takeo Arishima Correspondence, 1903-1907 MC.950.004 Finding Aid Prepared by Kara Flynn
Takeo Arishima correspondence, 1903-1907 MC.950.004 Finding aid prepared by Kara Flynn This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit February 12, 2016 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections January 2016 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA, 19041 610-896-1161 [email protected] Takeo Arishima correspondence, 1903-1907 MC.950.004 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Biographical note...........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Content note.................................................................................................................................4 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 6 - Page 2 - Takeo Arishima correspondence, 1903-1907 MC.950.004 Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Takeo, Arishima, 1878-1923 Title Takeo Arishima correspondence Date [inclusive] -
Literature of Colonial Hokkaido
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Outside Within: Literature of Colonial Hokkaido A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Languages and Cultures by Noriko Agastuma Day 2012 i ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Outside Within: Literature of Colonial Hokkaido by Noriko Agatsuma Day Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 Professor Seiji M. Lippit, Chair This thesis examines how historical, social, and political factors influence the creation of literary space, focusing on representations of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido in modern Japanese literature. The works examined below are set in Hokkaido from the 1880s to the 1930s, and they all exhibit a certain ambiguous duality. This ambiguity derives from Hokkaido’s dual position as an internal colony, simultaneously being both within sovereign borders and without as a colonial space. Given its status as an internal colony, however, the tension between naichi (mainland Japan) and Hokkaido gives rise to issues over national and ethnic authenticity. These issues of authenticity and belonging are encoded spatially in the texts, and in the dialectical relationship between naichi and Hokkaido, Japanese “authenticity” itself is created, questioned, or reaffirmed. Because of its nature, these works make up the first corpus of colonial literature of Japan. After the “Introduction,” the works of Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923), Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), Itō Sei (1905-1969), and Honjō Mutsuo (1905-1939) will be examined. ii The dissertation of Noriko Agatsuma Day is approved. Mariko Tamanoi Torquil Duthie Seiji M.