Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: the Case of Dazai Osamu
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1. Verfasser: Wolfe, Alan Stephen 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Studies of the East Asian Institute
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; Introduction Saint of Negativity; Part 1: Nation and Suicidal Narrative; Part 2: Suicidal Autobiography; Part 3: Japanese Littératuricide and Postwar Rebirth
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 theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure. In the process, Wolfe revises Japanese as well as Western scholarship on Dazai and discovers new connections among suicide, autobiography, alie
Beschreibung:280 pages
ISBN:9781400861002
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