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Language, Nation, Race

Download or Read eBook Language, Nation, Race PDF written by Atsuko Ueda and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Language, Nation, Race
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9780520381728
ISBN-13 : 0520381726
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Book Synopsis Language, Nation, Race by : Atsuko Ueda

Book excerpt: 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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