Searching for Japan : twentieth-century Italy's fascination with Japanese culture / Michele Monserrati.
Material type: TextSeries: Transnational Italian cultures ; 3.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020Copyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1789625173
- 9781789625172
- Travelers' writings, Italian -- History and criticism
- Japan -- Description and travel
- Italy -- Civilization -- Japanese influences
- Japan -- Civilization -- Italian influences
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian
- Civilization -- Japanese influences
- Civilization -- Italian influences
- Travel
- Travelers' writings, Italian
- Italy
- Japan
- 850.93252 23
- PQ4054.J3 M67 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Searching for Japan -- 1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation: Views from the Russo-Japanese War -- 2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism -- 3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan -- 4. Madama Butterfly Revised -- Postscript -- Index
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West.
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