Rachael Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. She is coeditor (with Mark Williams) of Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.

"…the book presents a freshly accentuated approach onKafū." — Journal of Japanese Studies"Hutchinson's powerful contribution will take its place among the most important books published on Kafū. It stands apart because she expands on important issues in his writing, including Orientalism/Occidentalism, identity, and social critique." — Douglas N. Slaymaker, author of The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Constructing the "West": Binarism and Complexity in Kafū’s America2. Imagining Authenticity: Literature and Civilization in Kafū’s France3. Positioning the Observer: Kafū’s ‘Orient’ and Orientalism4. Occidentalism: Contrast and Critique in the Returnee Stories5. Resistance: Defining and Preserving the Japanese SelfConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Rachael Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. She is coeditor (with Mark Williams) of Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.

"…the book presents a freshly accentuated approach onKafū." — Journal of Japanese Studies"Hutchinson's powerful contribution will take its place among the most important books published on Kafū. It stands apart because she expands on important issues in his writing, including Orientalism/Occidentalism, identity, and social critique." — Douglas N. Slaymaker, author of The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Constructing the "West": Binarism and Complexity in Kafū’s America2. Imagining Authenticity: Literature and Civilization in Kafū’s France3. Positioning the Observer: Kafū’s ‘Orient’ and Orientalism4. Occidentalism: Contrast and Critique in the Returnee Stories5. Resistance: Defining and Preserving the Japanese SelfConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Rachael Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. She is coeditor (with Mark Williams) of Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.

"…the book presents a freshly accentuated approach onKafū." — Journal of Japanese Studies"Hutchinson's powerful contribution will take its place among the most important books published on Kafū. It stands apart because she expands on important issues in his writing, including Orientalism/Occidentalism, identity, and social critique." — Douglas N. Slaymaker, author of The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Constructing the "West": Binarism and Complexity in Kafū’s America2. Imagining Authenticity: Literature and Civilization in Kafū’s France3. Positioning the Observer: Kafū’s ‘Orient’ and Orientalism4. Occidentalism: Contrast and Critique in the Returnee Stories5. Resistance: Defining and Preserving the Japanese SelfConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex