Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari
(2023)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2023). Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari. In A. Uchiyama, & B. Hartley (Eds.), Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity (43-58). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003143178-4
This chapter argues that Nagai Kafū’s (1879–1959) literary works can be read as a series of negotiations with multiple borders. Indeed, it is this very encounter with a range of diverse realities both within Japan and abroad that informed Kafū’s expe... Read More about Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari.