Faulkner and Oe The Self-Critical Imagination

Name: Faulkner and Oe The Self-Critical Imagination
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ISBN: 9780761836636

ISBN-10: 0761836632

ISBN-13: 9780761836636

Edition: 2007

Authors: Akio Kimura

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For Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese novelist who won the 1994 Noble prize in literature, William Faulkner is not so much a father of Yoknapatawpha as he is a critic of the masculine possessiveness attributed to the creation of the imaginary county. Faulkner and Oe: The Self-Critical Imagination focuses on the Faulknerian influence on Oe's satirical or self-critical imagination-especially on his feminist or hermaphroditic criticism of the male "I" contained within the shosetsu (novel). Akio Kimura expertly investigates Oe's feminist turn in his novels in the 1980s as a criticism of this "I" as an authoritarian first-person narrator. Oe considers this concept to be a disruptive reflection of…

Book details

List price: $51.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.47" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Yoknapatawpha of Oe's Own



The Feminine



The "Problems of the Spirit" / the "Matters of the Soul"


Conclusion: Oe's "I" and Faulkner's "is"


Bibliography


Index


About the Author