Modernism and Japanese Culture

Content: Introduction: modernity and modernism in a Japanese context --
Part I, Constructing \'Modernity\' and \'Tradition\': Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Meiji Japan, 1868-1912: Constructing Meiji modernity
 The anti-modernist backlash: constructing Meiji tradition
 The novel as modernist medium: modernity and anti-modernity in Meiji fiction --
Part II. High Modernism and the Fascist Backlash, 1912-1945: The Japanese modernist generation, 1912-1931
 The historical context of Japanese modernism
 Modernism and the Japanese philosophy of impermanence
 The legacy of Japonisme in Japan itself
 Kawabata as modernist and anti-modernist
 Overview
 Crystal Fantasies: Kawabata and the modern condition
 Snow Country: Kawabata and the overcoming of modernity --
Part III. The Rival Modernisms of Postwar Japan, 1945-1970: Modernist missionaries: The Americans in Japan, 1945-1952
 Japanese responses to American missionary modernism
 The occupation in fiction
 French as an alternative to American modernism
 Ōe Kenzaburō\'s \'ambiguous\' utopianism
 Responses from the right: the empire strikes back
 The reactionary modernism of Mishima Yukio --
Part IV. Empty and Marvellous: Japan in the \'Postmodern Age\', 1970-2010: Defining the \'postmodern condition\'
 \'Postmodernity\' in Japan
 National culture and identity in a \'postmodern\' age
 A Goethean conclusion --
Afterword: Japanese modernism today.