Searching for Japan : twentieth-century Italy's fascination with Japanese culture /
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2020.
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| Series: | Transnational Italian cultures ;
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzsmcn5 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Searching for Japan
- 1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation: Views from the Russo-Japanese War
- 2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism
- 3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan
- 4. Madama Butterfly Revised
- Postscript
- Index