Mother-Tongue in Modern Japanese Literature and Criticism Toward a New Polylingual Poetics /

• Main Author: Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Japanese language.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Comparative Literature.; Japanese.; Language and Literature.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue" as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of nativ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction Theoretical Presumptions and Comparative Perspective
• Mother-tongue and the Formulation of the National Language in Meiji Linguistics
• Gembun-itchi Movement: The Creation of a Linguistic State Apparatus
• Korean-Japanese Writers and the Redefinition of Bokoku-go
• Dialectal Literature as Bilingual Literature
• Contemporary Bilingual/Exophonic Writers and Their Politics
• Deconstructing Language as a Ground for Mother-tongue
• Conclusion.