Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / GeneralDescribes how writer Nagai Kaf (18791959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity. Nagai Kaf (18791959) spent more time abroad than any other writer of his generation, firing the Japanese imagination with his visions of America and France. Applying the theoretical framework of Occidentalism to Japanese literature, Rachael Hutchinson explores Kaf's construction of the Western Other, an integral part of his

Born in Florence to a Tuscan mother and English father

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Gifted with a chameleon-like ability to change his appearance

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Films and television programs discussed include A Night at the Opera

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marks the entry into this intimate story that reaches back through a lifetime of memories in search of self and home

this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany

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