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Japanophone Literature? A Transpacific Query on Absence
- MFS Modern Fiction Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 64, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 537-558
- 10.1353/mfs.2018.0041
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay inquires into the significance of the absent category of Japanophone literature in light of the recent rise of a global discourse on Sinophone literature and other postcolonial critical genealogies. This discussion of broader postcolonial taxonomies sets the stage for an investigation into the position of Japan as a minor empire in relation to its European counterparts. The precarious location among divided literary fields of colonial Korean writers, such as Kim Saryang, provides a segue into linking contested postcolonial and cold war legacies in the Asia-Pacific.