Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Shattering the Status Quo : Reading Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Fetishism of the West in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's A Fool's Love
  • Subversions of Ethnicity in Yokomitsu Riichi's Neo-Sensationist Writings
  • Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and the Narrative of the Present
  • "Love" and (Male) Subjectivity in Hirabayashi Taiko's "In the Charity Ward"
  • Coda : Against the National Literary Narrative.