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This chapter examines the meiji-period construction of classical Japanese literature as an object of academic study in three respects: (1) the role of the discipline in the institution of Japanese national community and in resisting the treaty powers’ claims of superiority over the Japanese, (2) the usefulness of the discipline as a resource for capitalist governmen- tal! ty seeking to discipline Japanese subjects in support of the logic of the market in Japanese society, and (3) its role in the development of a concept of imperial domesticity that lent legitimacy to Japanese claims to a paternalist obligation to occupy and develop Korea.
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Anderson, M. (2009). Haga Yaichi’s Institution of Classical Japanese Literature. In: Japan and the Specter of Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100985_7
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