The rhetoric of photography in modern Japanese literature : : materiality in the visual register as narrated by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko / / by Atsuko Sakaki.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume 54
• VerfasserIn: Sakaki, Atsuko, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature , Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965), Abe Kōbō (1924-93), Horie Toshiyuki (b. 1964) and Kanai Mieko (b. 1947). As connoisseurs, practitioners or critics of this visual medium, these authors look beyond photographs’ status as images that document and verify empirical incidents and existences, articulating instead the physical process of photographic production and photographs’ material presence in human lives. This book offers insight into the engagement with photography in Japanese literary texts as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light. It calls for a fundamental reconfiguration of the parameters of modern print culture and its presumption of the transparency of agents of representation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, or Photography as Disturbance to Middle-Brow Life -- 2 Anonymously Yours: Abe Kōbō’s Engagement with Photography -- 3 Photography as an Intermediary Art in Horie Toshiyuki -- 4 Photography by Hands in Kanai Mieko’s Narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.