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Negotiating identity : Nakagami Kenji's Kiseki and the power of the tale /
Nakagami Kenji is today regarded as one of the most important and influential Japanese post-war writers. Born in 1946 in the burakumin ghetto of the small coastal town of Shingu in southern Wakayama prefecture, Nakagami sailed up as a rising star on the literary skies in the mid-seventies when he be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Munich, Germany :
Iudicium Verlag GmbH,
2010.
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| Colección: | Iaponia insula ;
Bd. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Imprint; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The ""Miraculous"" story of Taichi
- a short summary; 2. Nakagami Kenji
- A Burakumin Writer; Literature and the Burakumin; 3. Critical Reception; From Nostalgic Returns to Innovative Rebellion; Towards a More Nuanced Approach; 4. The Monogatari and the Novel; The Classical Monogatari Tale; The Monogatari in Nakagami Criticism; 5. The Dialogic Nature of the Novel; Parody, the Novel, and Kiseki; Polyglossia and Polyglot Texts; 6. Theoretical Considerations; 7. Outline of Study; One: The Making of Myth.
- 1. Taichi
- An Ordinary Hero?2. The Roji
- A Mythic Landscape?; Originary Myths, a Definition; The Lotus Pond; Nature and the Myth of "Japan"; The Roji as an Imagined Community; 3. Kiseki
- A tale of Nostalgic Origins?; The Monogatari and Nostalgic Yearning; Evocations of the Monogatari in the Text's Oral Features; Evocations of the Monogatari in the Text's Formal Features; Thematic Evocations of the Monogatari; Two: The Dismantling of Myth; 1. The Narrative Perspective; Between Sanity and Insanity; Who Speaks? Who Sees?; 2. Narrative Time and Narrative Space; Memory and Narrative Time.
- Narrative Place, the Significance of the Asylum3. Mythic Imagery Falls Apart; Oryū and Reijo, Disbelieving Believers; Taichi
- The Mythic Hero Dismantled; Nature and National Origins: Another Construct Exposed; 4. Akiyuki Intrudes: The ""Ikuo Gaiden""; The Story of Ikuo; How the Ikuo Chapter Stands Out; Ikuo and the Akiyuki Trilogy; Consequences of the Crossing of Tales; Three: The Results of the Telling, Or: The Power of the Tale; 1. Literary Construct and the Perpetuation of Discrimination; Historical Shaping Forces
- Myth and Reality; Literary Markers of the Other in Kiseki.
- Kiseki and Buraku Myths of Origin2. Inversion of Power Structures: The Emperor and the Burakumin; Emperor = Burakumin; Resistance Through Language; On Death and Endings; 3. Oryu''s Celebratory Voice; Oryū's Story
- Her-story or His-story?; The Violence of the Tale; The Ikuo-chapter Revisited; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.