{"title":"Satoru Hashimoto","description":"\u003cp\u003eSatoru Hashimoto offers profound insights into the world of arts and culture, exploring the intricate relationships between objects, history, and memory. His work, such as \u003cem\u003eAfterlives of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, delves into the ways artifacts and written records shape our understanding of the past and its ongoing influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly layered narratives that blend scholarly thought with nuanced reflections on cultural heritage. Hashimoto’s writing invites contemplation on the cultural resonance of everyday objects and the histories they carry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"afterlives-of-letters-by-satoru-hashimoto-9780231211536","title":"Afterlives of Letters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernisation profoundly destabilised cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSatoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present's historical relationship to the past across the cultural transformations caused by modernisation. Hashimoto examines writers' anachronistic engagement with past cultures deemed obsolete or antithetical to new systems of values, showing that this transnational process was integral to the emergence of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking cross-cultural excavation of the origins of modern literature in East Asia featuring remarkable linguistic scope, \u003cem\u003eAfterlives of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406336377068,"sku":"9780231211536","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71uL7i9QVlL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773962609"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/satoru-hashimoto.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}