Complicit Fictions
The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative
James A. Fujii(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 1993
Book
Hardback
287 pages
978-0-520-07757-7 (ISBN)
Description
In "Complicit Fictions", James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. He employs current Western literary-critical theory to reveal the social and political content inherent in modern Japanese literature and also confronts recent breakthroughs in literary studies coming out of Japan. The result is a work that explicitly questions the Eurocentric dimensions of our conception of modernity. Modern Japanese literature has long been judged by Western and Japanese critics alike according to its ability to measure up to Western realist standards - standards that assume the centrality of an essential self or subject. Consequently, it has been made to appear deficient, derivative or exotically different. Fujii challenges this prevailing characterization by reconsidering the very notion of the subject. He focuses on such disparate 20th-century writers as Natsume Soseki, Tokuda Shusei, Shimazaki Toson and Origuchi Shinobu, and particularly on their divergent strategies to affirm subjecthood in narrative form.
The author proves what has been ignored or suppressed in earlier studies - the contestation that inevitably marks th
The author proves what has been ignored or suppressed in earlier studies - the contestation that inevitably marks th
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07757-7 (9780520077577)
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James A. Fujii is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of California, Irvine.