Chapter Le campagne allucinate: sul modernismo rurale nella letteratura giapponese di inizio Novecento
Abstract
In this essay, making use of concepts from the scholarship on rural modernism and Mark Fisher’s aesthetic reflection on the “weird” and the “eerie”, I analyze some texts in Japanese literature from the first three decades of the twentieth century. In the works of Yamamura Bochō, Hagiwara Sakutarō, and Miyoshi Tatsuji we find traces of a representation of the countryside as a site with its own specific form of modernity; the treatment of rural settings in non-realist modes; humus as the source of a weird externality; and the rural landscape as a powerfully eerie place.
Keywords
Rural Modernism; Mark Fisher; Yamamura Bochō; Hagiwara Sakutarō; Miyoshi TatsujiDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.20ISBN
9791221504224, 9791221504224Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2024Series
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History, 3Classification
Linguistics
Biography, Literature and Literary studies