Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature A Critical Approach

Name: Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature A Critical Approach
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ISBN: 9780415361866

ISBN-10: 0415361869

ISBN-13: 9780415361866

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rachael Hutchinson, Mark Williams

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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…

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.53" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Self and Other in modern Japanese literature




Hermes and Hermes: Othernesses in modern Japanese literature




Meet me on the other side: Strategies of Otherness in modern Japanese literature




External others



Who holds the whip? Power and critique in Nagai Kafu's Tales of America




'Foreign bodies': 'Race', gender and orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's 'The Mermaid's Lament'




Self and Other in the writings of Kajii Motojiro




Yokomitsu Riichi's Others: Paris and Shanghai




Internal others



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 Oe Kenzaburo's Hiroshima Notes




Free to write: Confronting the present, and the past, in Shiina Rinzo's The Beautiful Woman




Liminal sites



Yuta as the postcolonial Other in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's fiction




Modernity, history, and the uncanny: Colonial encounter and the epistemological gap




'There's no such place as home': Goto Meisei, or identity as alterity




Beyond language: Embracing the figure of 'the Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi



Index