Translating Mount Fuji Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

Name: Translating Mount Fuji Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity
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ISBN: 9780231138925

ISBN-10: 023113892X

ISBN-13: 9780231138925

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dennis Washburn

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Washburn focuses on the authors' representations of moral and aesthetic values, the role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society as reflected in their work.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Real Identities



Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts



Translating Mount Fuji



Manly Virtue and Modern Identity



Real Images



Toward a View from Nowhere



Kitsch, Nihilism, and the Inauthentic


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index