Narratives of agency : self-making in China, India, and Japan /

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This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency-defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dissanayake, Wimal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Self.
Individuality.
Subjectivity.
Ego (Psychology)
Moi (Psychologie)
Individualité.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Civilization
Individuality
Self
Subjectivity
Zelf.
Individualiteit.
Subjectiviteit.
China > Civilization.
India > Civilization.
Japan > Civilization.
Chine > Civilisation.
Inde > Civilisation.
Japon > Civilisation.
China
India
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Agency and Cultural Understanding: Some Preliminary Remarks; 1 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West; 2 Samsara: Self and the Crisis of Visual Narrative; 3 Visual Agency and Ideological Fantasy in Three Films by Zhang Yimou; 4 Contesting and Contested Identities: Mathura's Chaubes; 5 Self-Made; 6 Defining the Self in Indian Literary and Filmic Texts; 7 Selves and Others in Japanese Culture in Historical Perspective; 8 Self, Agency, and Cultural Knowledge: Reflections on Three Japanese Films.

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