Nagai Kafu's Occidentalism : Defining the Japanese Self

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Describes how writer Nagai Kafuµ (18791959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Constructing the "West": Binarism and Complexity in Kafu's America	p. 17
Imagining Authenticity: Literature and Civilization in Kafu's France	p. 59
Positioning the Observer: Kafu's "Orient" and Orientalism	p. 95
Occidentalism: Contrast and Critique in the Returnee Stories	p. 133
Resistance: Defining and Preserving the Japanese Self	p. 173
Conclusions	p. 219
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 263
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