Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea

✍ Scribed by Christina Yi

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Christina Yi investigates linguistic nationalism in the formation of literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names, Terminology, and Translations
Introduction
1. NATIONAL LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE
2. “LET ME IN!”: IMPERIALIZATION IN METROPOLITAN JAPAN
3. ENVISIONING A LITERATURE OF THE IMPERIAL NATION
4. COMING TO TERMS WITH THE TERMS OF THE PAST
5. COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE DIVIDED “I” IN OCCUPATION-PERIOD JAPAN
6. COLLABORATION, WARTIME RESPONSIBILITY, AND COLONIAL MEMORY
EPILOGUE
Appendix: Korean Authors and Literary Critics
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index