City, empire and flow : Osaka and the Philippines in Oda Sakunosuke's Waga machi
City, empire and flow : Osaka and the Philippines in Oda Sakunosuke's Waga machi
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城市、帝国和流动：织田作之助和贺町的大阪和菲律宾
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10.1080/09555803.2012.738697
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2013
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0.6
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MICHAEL
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CRONIN;MICHAEL
世界主义，以及城市、国家和超越国界的网络之间的关系，最近引起了重要的评论。本文探讨了在一个位置独特的城市中令人担忧的历史时刻所想象的这种关系。织田作之助在殖民扩张的鼎盛时期写作，将日本商业首都大阪描绘成远离帝国首都东京的中心。他 1942 年的小说《瓦嘎马奇》涉及到帝国话语的一个基本概念：所有地区都服从于一个超越的统一体。瓦加马奇戏剧化地展现了这种帝国超越性对其主人公的强大吸引力。与此同时，它想象了一种植根于大阪的另类本土世界主义，通过流动的图像将其与菲律宾联系起来。本文探讨了当地城市的流动——水流、交通流、语言流和流动劳动力。它认为，对小说强调的地方性的关注不仅阐明了大阪对帝国想象的重要性（以及织田对现代日本文学的重要性），而且阐明了这座城市作为批评中心的潜力。
Cosmopolitanism, and the relation of the city, the state and networks that exceed state borders, has garnered significant recent commentary. This article examines that relation as imagined at a fraught historical moment in a uniquely positioned city. Writing at the height of colonial expansion, Oda Sakunosuke presented Japan's merchant capital Osaka as an off-centre to the imperial capital Tokyo. His 1942 novelWaga machiengages with a notion fundamental to discourses of empire: that of a transcendent unity to which all locales are subordinated.Waga machidramatizes the powerful allure of this imperial transcendence for its protagonist. At the same time, it imagines an alternative, local cosmopolitanism rooted in Osaka, which it links to the Philippines through images of flow. This article examines the flows that define that local city – flows of water, traffic, language and migrant labour. It argues that attention to the novel's emphatic locality clarifies not only Osaka's significance to the imperial imaginary (and Oda's significance to modern Japanese literature) but also the city's potential to serve as a locus of critique.