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Kyoko Omori
Kyoko Omori
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an essay titled "North American Research in Japanese Modernism" (in Japanese: "Hokubei ni okeru Nihon modanizumu kenkyu") in Showa Literary Studies (Showa bungaku kenkyu: Number 57, 2008). Until recently, only certain types of Japanese literary texts produced under the influence of Western high modernism were considered modanizumu bungaku (modernist literature).

By surveying the historical development of Japanese modernist studies and detailing its current state in North America, Omori first discusses the earlier stage of Orientalist scholarly positions both in and outside Japan. She then addresses the more recent and multi-faceted endeavor to understand modanizumu as a complex set of reactions to the everyday experience of modernity by an emerging middle class during the early 20th century in Japan.

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