Michael K. Bourdaghs

A Fictional Commons

Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Soseki-widely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelist-as critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014621
• ISBN-10: 1478014628
• Artikelnr.: 60406916

Autorenporträt

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, coeditor of Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Usage  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Owning up to S
seki  1 1. Fables of Property: Nameless Cats, Trickster Badgers, Stray Sheep  13 2. House under a Shadow: Disowning the Psychology of Possessive Individualism in The Gate  51 3. Property and Sociological Knowledge: S
seki and the Gift of Narrative  91 4. The Tragedy of the Market:Younger Brothers, Women, and Colonial Subjects in Kokoro  121 Conclusion. Who Owns S
seki? Or, How Not to Belong in World Literature  147 Notes  177 Bibliography  205 Index  219