The Alien Within
Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19136161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leith Morton (0000-0002-2331-1296, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Alien Within (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824864576 |
| OpenAlex | W646377963 |
| Open Library | OL29357721M |
| ISBN | 9780824864576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Readers worldwide have long been drawn to the foreign, the exotic, and the alien, even before Freud's famous essay on the uncanny in 1919. Given Japan's many years of relative isolation, followed by its multicultural empire, these themes seem particularly ripe for exploration and exploitation by Japanese writers. Their literary adventures have taken them inside Japan as well as outside, and how they internalized the exotic through the adoption of modernist techniques and subject matter forms the primary subject of this book. The Alien Within is the first book-length thematic study in English of the alien in modern Japanese literature and helps shed new light on a number of important authors. Morton examines the Gothic, a form of writing with strong affinities to European Gothic and a motif in the fiction of several key modern Japanese writers, such as Arishima Takeo
Alien · Art · Literature · Sensibility · Sociology · Subject (documents) · History · Japanese History and Culture · 20th century · History and criticism · Japanese literature · Japanese literature, history and criticism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |