Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
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日本现代文学的起源
DOI：
10.2307/2904838
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发表时间：
1992
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通讯作者：
Brett de Bary
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作者：
C. Inouye;K. Karatani;Brett de Bary
《日本现代文学的起源》在日本出版十年来，已成为一部里程碑式的著作，在界定日本现代性讨论方面发挥了关键作用。在西方翻译家对现代亚洲批评理论相对不重视的历史上，这本第一本英文出版物肯定会对当前西方的文化批评产生深远的影响。它既是战后出现的对日本现代文学史最大胆的批判，也是一次重大的理论干预，它对西方意识中的现代性观念提出了质疑。
在对19世纪和20世纪日本文学的全面重新解读中，唐谷晃人迫使我们重新思考现代性概念背后的假设。在他的分析中，诸如起源、现代、文学和国家等熟悉的术语表明它们本身是意识形态的建构。Karatani将许多独立的线索编织成一个论点，揭示了日本和西方对现代文化发展的描述中隐藏的东西。其中包括：绘画和文学中的风景的“发现”及其与个体意识内在性的关系，日本戏剧中的裸体作为另一种由性别产生的风景的类似“发现”，汉字在书写中的主导地位受到挑战，忏悔文学作为性和身体压抑的产物的出现，宗教文学的出现，宗教文学的兴起等等。武士阶级向基督教的转变;结核病、癌症和疾病作为意义的产生者的神话化;以及“发现”“儿童”作为人类的一个独立类别。
这是一部超越文学研究范围的重要作品，Karatani的分析挑战了西方理论中心和原创性的基本假设，并扰乱了“西方”与其所谓的“他者”的二元对立。“所有对文化观念的发展和决定现代性的相互关联的因素感兴趣的人都应该阅读《现代日本文学的起源》。
Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the West. It is both the boldest critique of modern Japanese literary history to appear in the post-war era and a major theoretical intervention, which calls into question the idea of modernity that informs Western consciousness.
In a sweeping reinterpretation of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Karatani Kojin forces a reconsideration of the very assumptions underlying our concepts of modernity. In his analysis, such familiar terms as origin, modern, literature, and the state reveal themselves to be ideological constructs. Karatani weaves many separate strands into an argument that exposes what has been hidden in both Japanese and Western accounts of the development of modern culture. Among these strands are: the "discovery" of landscape in painting and literature and its relation to the inwardness of individual consciousness; the similar "discovery" in Japanese drama of the naked face as another kind of landscape produced by interiority; the challenge to the dominance of Chinese characters in writing; the emergence of confessional literature as an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality and the body; the conversion of the samurai class to Christianity; the mythologizing of tuberculosis, cancer, and illness in general as a producer of meaning; and the "discovery" of "the child" as an independent category of human being.
A work that will be important beyond the confines of literary studies, Karatani's analysis challenges basic Western presumptions of theoretical centrality and originality and disturbs the binary opposition of the "West" to its so-called "other." Origins of Modern Japanese Literature should be read by all those with an interest in the development of cultural concepts and in the interrelating factors that have determined modernity.