Fuminobu Murakami

Gebundenes Buch

The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature

Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

Beschreibung

This book uses texts from classical and modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.

Autor

Fuminobu Murakami is Associate Professor at the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Hong Kong. He is author of Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Reading The Tale of Genji (Global Oriental, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415573863
• ISBN-10: 0415573866
• Artikelnr.: 29922592