Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Approach
Redaktion: Hutchinson, Rachael; Williams, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature" looks at the ways in authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies the contributors illuminate themes and issues related to this delineation of the Other and the Japanese Self.
Part one of the book concentrates on the West and Asia as a contrastive Other, focusing on Japan looking at Others outside Japan. Taking geographical, racial and ethnic identity as a starting point to explore Japan's vision of 'non-Japan', representations of the Other are examined in terms of the experiences of Japanese authors abroad and in the imaginary lands envisioned by authors in Japan. Part two goes on to look at Japan's perspective of Others inside the borders of Japan and within the same ethnic grouping and how Japanese society looks out at the peripheries and margins of its own society. Finally, part three discusses whether there is any middle ground between this typical Japanese society and the Others on the periphery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134233908
• Artikelnr.: 42635779

Autorenporträt

Rachael Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Colgate University. Her current research interests focus on the dynamics of representation in a range of textual and new media, including the literature of Nagai Kafu, the films of Kurosawa Akira and the manga of Tezuka Osamu. Mark Williams is Professor of Japanese Studies and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include Endo Shusaku: A Literature of Reconciliation (Routledge, 1999), and with Mark Williams & John Breen (eds) Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses (Macmillan, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Hermes and Hermés: Othernesses in Modern Japanese
Literature 2. Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern
Japanese Literature Part 1: External Others 3. Who Holds the Whip? Power
and Critique in Nagai Kafu's Tales of America 4. Foreign Bodies: 'Race',
Gender and Orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's The Mermaid's Lament 5.
Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro 6. Yokomitsu Riichi's
Others: Paris and Shanghai Part 2: Internal Others 7. Passing: Paradoxes of
Alterity in The Broken Commandment 8. The Burakumin as Other in Noma
Hiroshi's Circle of Youth 9. Sincerely Yours: Uno Chiyo's A Wife's Letters
as Wartime Subversion 10. Foreign Sex, Native Politics: Lady Chatterley's
Lover in Post-Occupation Japan 11. The Way of the Survivor: Conversion and
Inversion in Oe Kenzaburo's Hiroshima Notes 12. Free to Write: Confronting
the Present and the Past in Shiina Rinzo's The Beautiful WomanPart 3:
Liminal Sites 13. Yuta as the Postcolonial Other in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's
Fiction 14. Modernity, History, and the Uncanny: The Colonial Encounter and
the Epistemological Gap 15. There's No Such Place As Home: Goto Meisei, or
Identity as Alterity 16. Beyond Language: Embracing the Figure of 'the
Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi