Screen LibraryRepresenting the other in modern Japanese literature : a critical approach /
This text looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the 20th 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...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series ;
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This text looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the 20th 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. |
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Series numbering from publisher's list in later volume. Exchange. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 345 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0415361869 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415361866 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415361850 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415361859 (pbk. : alk. paper) : 9780203012345 (e-book) 0203012348 (e-book) |
| Index Number: | PL726 |
| CLC: | I313.065 |
| Call Number: | I313.065/R425 |
| Contents: |
Self and Other in modern Japanese literature / Hermes and Hermès : Othernesses in modern Japanese literature / Meet me on the other side : strategies of Otherness in modern Japanese literature / Who holds the whip? : power and critique in Nagai Kafū's Tales of America / 'Foreign bodies' : 'race', gender and Orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's 'The mermaid's lament' / Self and Other in the writings of Kajii Motojirō / Yokomitsu Riichi's Others : Paris and Shanghai / Passing : paradoxes of alterity in The broken commandment / The Burakumin as 'Other' in Noma Hiroshi's Circle of youth / Sincerely yours : Uno Chiyo's A wife's letters as wartime subversion / Foreign sex, native politics : Lady Chatterley's Lover in post-occupation Japan / The way of the survivor : conversion and inversion in Ōe Kenzaburō's Hiroshima notes / Free to write : confronting the present, and the past, in Shiina Rinzō's The beautiful woman / Yuta as the postcolonial Other in Ōshiro Tatsuhiro's fiction / Modernity, history, and the uncanny : colonial encounter and the epistemological gap / 'There's no such place as home : Gotō Meisei, or identity as alterity / Beyond language : embracing the figure of 'the Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi / |