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The Journal of Japanese Studies |
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Abstract
WILLIAM O. GARDNER This article examines Hayashi
Fumiko's novel Horoki (Diary of a vagabond) as a personal and
historical narrative of Japanese modernity. Arguing for an
acknowledgment of Horoki as a modernist work, it analyzes how
Hayashi positions her work with regard to the developing idea of mass
culture. Through a consideration of the early mass cultural forms
recorded in Hayashi's narrative, it shows how gender and regional identity
contribute to the formation of a mass subject who retains the prospect of
critical agency.
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