Occidentalism and critique of Meiji: the West in the returnee stories of Nagai Kafū

Hutchinson, Rachael

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“…Rather it insists on the importance of studying non-Western representations of the West in their own right, as both intrinsically important and possessing a degree of autonomy from Western global hegemony. English-language examples that reflect this perspective include studies of the development of stereotypes of the West in China (Chen, 1995;Ning, 1997;Song, 2000), Sri Lanka (Spencer, 1995), Egypt (Al-Ali, 2000), Japan (Creighton, 1995;Hutchinson, 2001), and Iran, (Tavakoli-Targhi, 1990;. All these contributions build on a large, yet scattered and specialised literature of how the West has been viewed around the world (for example, Aizawa, 1986;Chang, 1970;Hay, 1970;Hirth, 1966;Siddiqi, 1956;Teng and Fairbank, 1979).…”

Section: Occidentalism and Plural Modernitiesmentioning

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Occidentalism and Plural Modernities: Or How Fukuzawa and Tagore Invented the West

Bonnett

2005

Environ Plan D

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The conflation of the West with modernity is being challenged by new critical interventions on the themes of`occidentalism' and`plural modernities'. In this paper I bring these themes together into an account of the way the idea of the West has been employed and deployed in the construction of non-Western modernities. This is done in the company of two important figures in the articulation and invention of the West, the Japanese`Westerniser' Fukuzawa Yukichi and the Indian poet and advocate of spiritual Asia Rabindranath Tagore. Fukuzawa and Tagore developed contrasting narratives both of the West and of Asia, narratives which they employed to express novel and distinctive visions of the nature of modern life.

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Occidentalism and Plural Modernities: Or How Fukuzawa and Tagore Invented the West

Bonnett

2005

Environ Plan D

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“…For many writers, urban space formed an important metaphor. Best known of these is Nagai Kafû, but there were others before and after who, like him, lamented and elegised and in so doing added to a voluminous topographical literature on the city (Hutchinson, 2001). Theirs, however, was an élite-level response to Shitamachi's marginalisation.…”

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Moving the Margins of Tokyo

Waley

2002

Urban Studies

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We make sense of urban space by investing it with names, names that over time accrue meanings both polyvalent at any one point in time and mutating through time. The extent and meanings of Shitamachi, one of Tokyo's central territorial concepts, have changed signi cantly throughout the city's history. In this paper, I rst chart these changing meanings and then set the territory within the wider terrain of capital city as vehicle for the twin interests of state and capital. Urban space in Tokyo was used as a formative setting onto which to inscribe an idea of modernisation. Within this larger picture, Shitamachi was seen as representing a past vision of the city, one that was inimical to the interests of a modernising state. It became an industrial zone, a margin within the folds of central space. In recent years, a reassessment has occurred. Shitamachi is now widely celebrated as a space of communal memory and historical identity, even though its extent and meanings remain contested. The richly symbolic spaces of the imagination are thus rooted within a changing political economy.

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Good-bye Asia: The Westernisers’ West, Fukuzawa and Gökalp

Bonnett¹

2004

The Idea of the West

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Occidentalism and critique of Meiji: the West in the returnee stories of Nagai Kafū

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Occidentalism and Plural Modernities: Or How Fukuzawa and Tagore Invented the West

Occidentalism and Plural Modernities: Or How Fukuzawa and Tagore Invented the West

Moving the Margins of Tokyo

Good-bye Asia: The Westernisers’ West, Fukuzawa and Gökalp

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