Language, nation, race : linguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) /

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Author / Creator:Ueda, Atsuko, author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:New interventions in Japanese studies
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13426557
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ISBN:9780520381728
0520381726
9780520381711
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:"Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when "national language" (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. 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 with the new forms of Western knowledge. 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 arose in the 1990s and 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"--
Other form:Print version: Ueda, Atsuko. Language, nation, race Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520381711

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