Rapley, Ian  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8439-1253
2013.
When global and local culture meet: Esperanto in 1920s rural Japan.
Language Problems and Language Planning
37
(2)
, pp. 179-196.
10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap
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Abstract
In the 1920s Aomori prefecture, a rural part of northern Japan, a group of Esperanto clubs emerged as a sub-part of a “local arts movement”. This movement was an attempt to counter a perception of underdevelopment through the cultivation of local arts and culture together with a simultaneous engagement with global and transnational ideas such as Esperanto. By studying this unexpected manifestation of internationalism (as well as debates regarding the local/global relationship) it is argued that Esperanto represented a cosmopolitan world view that retained explicit respect for local and cultural differences, a “rooted cosmopolitanism”. This enabled the residents of Aomori to imagine an alternative to the process of modern nation building in which their local identity was seen as a remnant of an undesirable past. Keywords: transnational history, cultural internationalism, local history, language problems, Japan, Esperanto
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia P Language and Literature > PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing |
| ISSN: | 0272-2690 |
| Funders: | AHRC |
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| Date of Acceptance: | 2012 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2022 09:38 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75145 |
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