Narrating the Self

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ISBN: 9780804731621 | 0804731624
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1997

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Narrating the Self examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the "Inovel", an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's personal life thinly veiled as fiction.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction Narratives of Japanese Modernity	p. 1
The Novel and the Self as Master Signifiers	p. 13
the Position of the 'shōsetsu': Paradigm Change and New Literary Discourse	p. 15
Self, Christianity, and Language: 'Genbun-Itchi' and Concern for the Self	p. 33
the Furor Over the I-Novel: the Question of Authenticity	p. 48
Rereading the I-Novel	p. 67
Love, Sexuality, and Nature: Tayama Katai's 'Quilt' and Japanese Naturalism	p. 69
Shaping Life, Shaping the Past: Shiga Naoya's Narratives of Recollection	p. 93
Traces of the Self	p. 133
Crossing Boundaries: Truth and Fiction in Nagai Kafū's 'strange Tale from East of the River'	p. 135
Allegories of Modernity: Parodic Confession in Tanizaki Jun'Ichirō's 'Fool's Love'	p. 151
Epilogue Tanizaki's Speaking Subject and Creation of Tradition	p. 175
Reference Matter	p. 187
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 235
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