Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
Weird Studies
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Tanazaki's Theory of Colonization
There's a lot about this book that feels very contemporary. One thing that he does is it's actually a pretty standard move as people have been developing ideas of minority literatures. The question is always going to be, all right, so how do we establish our own principles by which we can generate our own tradition? And Tanazaki is being very, he's interested in the technology of the modern West, but he wants to figure out what would it be like if we had invented the electric light?"
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