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oapen-20.500.12657-482772023-01-31T18:36:12Z Language, Nation, Race Ueda, Atsuko Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Historical & Comparative History Asia Japan Literary Collections Asian Japanese bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the “nation,” for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it. 2021-04-21T03:30:20Z 2021-04-21T03:30:20Z 2021 book 9780520381728 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48277 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf University of California Press University of California Press https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.103 https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.103 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780520381728 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of California Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the “nation,” for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.
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