Bourdaghs Michael K. Bourdaghs

Fictional Commons (eBook, PDF)

Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. For Soseki, literature was a means for thinking through-and beyond-private property. Bourdaghs puts Soseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentaro, author of Japan's first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kojin and Franco Moretti. As Bourdaghs shows, Soseki both appropriated and rejected concepts of ownership and subjectivity in ways that theorized literature as a critical response to the emergence of global capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 235
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021926
• Artikelnr.: 66282714

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