Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan : : The Case of Dazai Osamu / / Alan Stephen Wolfe.
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the East Asian Institute ;
1077 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction. SAINT OF NEGATIVITY Introduction SAINT OF NEGATIVITY
- PART ONE: Nation and Suicidal Narrative
- Chapter One. FROM SEPPUKUTOJISATSU: SUICIDE AS NATIONAL ALLEGORY
- Chapter Two. TWO TALES OF SUICIDE: SOCIO-LITERARY COMPLICITIES IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION
- PART TWO: Suicidal Autobiography
- Chapter Three. NOVEL, GHOSTLY, AND NEGATIVE SELVES
- Chapter Four. THE LAST OF THE I-NOVELISTS
- Chapter Five. DYING TWICE: ALLEGORIES OF IMPOSSIBILITY
- PART THREE: Japanese Litteraturicide and Postwar Rebirth
- Chapter Six. DEATHSCRIPT: SUICIDE AS POLITICAL SURVIVAL
- Chapter Seven. ALLEGORICAL UNDOINGS
- Chapter Eight. JAPANESE RESSENTIMENT
- Epilogue. POSTMODERN POSTMORTEM
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX