Reading Against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel

Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of culture is both destructive and necessary. Culture constitutes the environment within which self develops and interacts with other; as a closed environment of self-identity, however, culture inevitably implies alterity and exclusion....

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1. Verfasser: Pollack, David (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of culture is both destructive and necessary. Culture constitutes the environment within which self develops and interacts with other; as a closed environment of self-identity, however, culture inevitably implies alterity and exclusion. David Pollack proposes that only by reading against culture—both by understanding how our involvement in it conditions our writing and reading, and by understanding how its inclusion of self entails the exclusion of other—can we begin to resist the hegemonic impulse inherent in reading across cultures
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:9781501737527
DOI:10.7591/9781501737527

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