The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

Michael Bourdaghs

September, 2003
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12980-0
$59.50 / £41.00

Introduction

1. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination

2. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: "The Broken Commandment" as Hygiene Manual

3. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing "The Family"

4. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women's Literature'" in "Spring" and "New Life"

5. The Times and Spaces of Nations: The Multiple Chronotopes of "Before the Dawn"

Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

About the Author

Michael Bourdaghs teaches in the department of East Asian languages and cultures at UCLA. He is the translation editor of Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.

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