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Romance, Family, and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature This page is intentionally left blank Romance, Family, and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature Kimberly T. Kono ROMANCE, FAMILY, AND NATION IN JAPANESE COLONIAL LITERATURE Copyright © Kimberly T. Kono, 2010. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-61989-0 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-38245-3 ISBN 978-0-230-10578-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230105782 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my grandmother, Sadako Kase (1913–2009) This page is intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Performing Ethnicity, Gender and Modern Love in Colonial Manchuria 15 2 (Re)writing Colonial Lineage in Sakaguchi Reiko’s “Passionflower” 43 3 Looking for Legitimacy: Cultural Identity and the Interethnic Family in Colonial Korea 75 4 Marriage, Modernization, and the Imperial Subject 99 5 Colonizing a National Literature: The Debates on Manchurian Literature 119 Conclusion: Significant Others in Japanese Colonial Literature 143 Notes 153 Works Cited 195 Index 209 This page is intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I have benefited greatly from the advice and support of many people throughout this project. First and foremost, I want to thank my teachers in the United States and Japan. Alan Tansman generously offered suggestions and encouragement. His sensitive guidance and sage critiques were vital in helping me see this project through to its completion. Sharalyn Orbaugh planted the idea of graduate school in my head, and through her research has modeled some of the exciting possibilities in this field. I also want to thank my other teachers while at Berkeley: H. Mack Horton, Caren Kaplan, Joshua Mostow and Donna Storey. In Tokyo and Yokohama, Kawamura Minato and Yonaha Keiko kindly shared their knowledge and resources and pointed me in the right direction. I feel very fortunate to have had such a wonderful community in graduate school. I thank David Averbach, Marilyn Bolles, Stefania Burk, Kirsten Cather, Don Choi, Michael Foster, Larissa Heinrich, Yukari Ishizaka, Gretchen Jones, Wakae Kambara, Katsuya Kinjo, Yasuko Konno, Chris Laughrun, Sayuri Oyama, Zeli Rivas, Keiko Sakatani, Christine Shippey, Kenji Tierney, and Natasha Wild for making those years such a pleasure. Colleagues at Smith College in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Program in East Asian Studies, and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender have provided a welcoming and supportive environment for teaching and research. In particular, I would like to thank Marnie Anderson, Sharon Domier, Rob Eskildsen, Suzanne Gottschang, Marguerite Harrison, Maki Hubbard, Ann Jones, Yuri Kumagai, Megumi Oyama, Tom Rohlich, Marilyn Schuster, Vicky Spelman, Susan Van Dyne, Paula Varsano, Sujane Wu, and Dennis Yasutomo. My students at Smith College have been an endless source of enthusiasm and creative thought. Special thanks to the students from the Writing Empire seminars for their intellectual rigor and thoughtful contributions. Over the past decade, the research and writing of this book was funded by the Japan Foundation, the University of California,
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