NEW BOOK: Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature

By Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa | Routledge This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and “autoexoticist” literature of the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the way in which reciprocal processes of transcultural acquisition – by Japan and from Japan – were portrayed in the medium of literature, the book illustrates how literary Japonisme and the wider processes whereby Japan, with its alien

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