Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

813 Pages·2012·3.042 MB·English

by  Denton, Kirk A.;Fulton, Ju-Chan;Mostow, Joshua S

The Columbia Companion
to Modern East Asian Literature

The Columbia Companion
to Modern East Asian Literature
general editor
Joshua S. Mostow
associate editors
Kirk A. Denton
Bruce Fulton
Sharalyn Orbaugh
columbia university press
new york
Columbia University Press
Publishers Since 1893
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Columbia Companion to modern East Asian literature / Joshua Mostow, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-231–11314-5
1. East Asian literature—20th century—Encyclopedias.
I. Title: Modern East Asian literature. II. Mostow, Joshua.
PL493.C55 2003
895—dc21
2o02035141
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Columbia University Press books are printed
on permanent and durable acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America
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contents
part i General Introduction
Joshua S. Mostow, General Editor
1. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 1
2. Modern Literature in East Asia: An Overview 7
part ii Japan
Sharalyn Orbaugh, Associate Editor
Thematic Essays
3. Historical Overview 21
4. The Problem of the Modern Subject 24
5. Nation and Nationalism 36
6. Gender, Family, and Sexualities in Modern Literature 43
7. The Social Organization of Modern Japanese Literature 52
vi Contents
Authors, Works, Schools
8. Translated and Political Novels of the Meiji Period 59
9. Tsubouchi Shoyoand Futabatei Shimei 62
10. The Ken’yvsha, Ozaki Koyo, and Yamada Bimyo 66
11. Meiji Women Writers 69
12. Mori Ogai 74
13. Higuchi Ichiyoand Neoclassical Modernism 79
14. Shimazaki Toson 84
15. Natsume Soseki 87
16. Seitoand the Resurgence of Writing by Women 93
17. The Revival of Poetry in Traditional Forms 99
18. Poetry in Chinese in the Modern Period 105
19. Meiji-Period Theater 108
20. Uno Chiyo 112
21. Tanizaki Jun’ichiro 115
22. Shiga Naoya and the Shirakaba Group 121
23. Akutagawa Ryvnosuke 126
24. The Debate over Pure Literature 132
25. Naturalism and the Emergence of the Shishosetsu
(Personal Novel) 137
26. Kawabata Yasunari 141
27. Free Verse in the TaishoEra 146
28. Takamura Kotaro 150
29. Taishoand Prewar Showa Theater 154
30. Hayashi Fumiko 158
31. Miyamoto Yuriko and Socialist Writers 164
32. Nagai Kafv 170
33. Wartime Fiction 175
34. Atomic Fiction and Poetry 179
35. Occupation-Period Fiction 184
36. Dazai Osamu, Sakaguchi Ango, and the Burai School 190
37. Abe Kobo 193
38. Oe Kenzaburo 198
39. Ibuse Masuji 204
Contents vii
40. EndoShvsaku 207
41. Enchi Fumiko 212
42. Mishima Yukio 216
43. The 1960s and 1970s Boom in Women’s Writing 221
44. Oba Minako 230
45. Murakami Ryv 233
46. Murakami Haruki 236
47. Nakagami Kenji 239
48. Kanai Mieko 242
49. Tsushima Yvko 246
50. Shimada Masahiko and Shimizu Yoshinori 251
51. Yoshimoto Banana 256
52. Yamada Eimi 259
53. Postwar Poetry 262
54. Postwar Experimental Theater I: Angura 269
55. Postwar Experimental Theater II: Butoand Performance Art 274
56. Modern Okinawan Literature 278
part iii China
Kirk A. Denton, Associate Editor
Thematic Essays
57. Historical Overview 287
58. Language and Literary Form 307
59. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature 315
60. Modern Chinese Literature As an Institution:
Canon and Literary History 324
Authors, Works, Schools
61. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao,
Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity 333
62. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries 341
63. Late Qing Fiction 348
viii Contents
64. Zhou Shoujuan’s Love Stories
and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction 355
65. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society 364
66. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women’s Writing 371
67. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu 378
68. The Madman That Was Ah Q:
Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun’s Fiction 385
69. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling 395
70. The Debate on Revolutionary Literature 401
71. Mao Dun, the Modern Novel, and the Representation of Women 405
72. Ba Jin’s Family:Fiction, Representation, and Relevance 411
73. Chinese Modernism: The New Sensationists 418
74. Shen Congwen and Imagined Native Communities 425
75. Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death 431
76. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater 437
77. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm 446
78. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi 452
79. Eileen Chang and Alternative Wartime Narrative 458
80. Literature and Politics: Mao Zedong’s
“Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Art and Literature” 463
81. Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism:
The Song of Youth 470
82. The Hundred Flowers 476
83. The Taiwan Modernists 481
84. Same-Sex Love in Recent Chinese Literature 488
85. The Cultural Revolution Model Theater 496
86. The Taiwan Nativists 502
87. Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong 509
88. Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao 515
89. Misty Poetry 520
90. Scar Literature and the Memory of Trauma 527
91. Culture against Politics: Roots-Seeking Literature 533
92. Mo Yan and Red Sorghum 541
93. Diaspora Literature 546
94. Avant-Garde Fiction in China 554
Contents ix
95. Modern Poetry of Taiwan 561
96. Post-Mao Urban Fiction 570
97. Xi Xi and Tales of Hong Kong 578
98. Writing Taiwan’s Fin-de-siècle Splendor:
Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin 584
99. Wang Anyi 592
100. Wang Shuo and the Commercialization of Literature 598
101. Voices of Negotiation in Late Twentieth-Century
Hong Kong Literature 604
102. Returning to Recluse Literature: Gao Xingjian 610
part iv Korea
Bruce Fulton, Associate Editor
Thematic Essays
103. Historical Overview 619
104. Pure Literature versus the Literature of Engagement 630
105. The Literature of Territorial Division 635
106. Women’s Literature 638
107. The S{ngjang Sos{l 644
Authors, Works, Schools
108. Yi Kwangsu 648
109. Realism in Early Modern Fiction 651
110. Ch{ng Chiyong 654
111. Yi Sang 657
112. Kim Sow{l 664
113. Ch’ae Manshik 667
114. The Unencumbered in S{Ch{ngju 669
115. Hwang Sunw{n 673
116. The Short Fiction of Kim Tongni 677
117. The W{lbukWriters 681
118. Short Fiction from the Liberation Period 684
x Contents
119. Postwar Fiction 687
120. O Y{ngsu and The Good People 692
121. Ch’oe Inhun’s The Square 695
122. Pak Ky{ngni and Land 698
123. O Ch{nghki 701
124. Pak Wans{ 704
125. Kim Suy{ng 707
126. Ko Kn 710
127. Hwang S{gy{ng 713
128. Yun Hknggil 718
129. Cho Sehki and The Dwarf 720
130. The Intellectual Realm of Yi Ch’{ngjun 723
131. Yi Muny{l 727
132. Shin Ky{ngnim 731
133. The Theater of O T’aes{k 734
134. Yang Kwija 737
135. Ch’oe Yun 740
Timeline 743
Contributors 745
Index 747