Spatial and Temporal Themes in Japanese Modernist Fiction

Spatial and Temporal Themes in Japanese Modernist Fiction

From the 1910s up to the 1930s was one of the very interesting times of the literature of the Japanese. These years were the beginning of the modernist movement and replacing the Meiji Restoration resulting in the early maturity of the Showa period. During these times, literary imagination responded more to the transformation of the nation because Japan was going through major industrialization and therefore they expanded more in Asia. In the twentieth century’s early decades, many writers worked more with self-internalization. It was also an exciting period of literary experimentation where different writers put into…