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The “I” in the Making

Rethinking the Japanese shishōsetsu in a Global Age

Justyna Weronika Kasza author Barbara Michalak-Pikulska editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:21st Dec '20

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The book centres around the topic of subjectivity and self-representation in contemporary Japanese literature and offers a new approach to the genre of shishōsetsu (the I-novel).

It reassesses the works of Dazai Osamu, Ōe Kenzaburō, Endō Shūsaku, Murakami Haruki, and of the translingual writers - Mizumura Minae, Hideo Levy, Tawada Yōko - to expose the wide-ranging treatment of personal experiences, and the intricate relations between the characters, the narrator, and the writing persona.

In the context of world fiction and autobiography theories, the book investigates literary and linguistic challenges in expressing the “self.” The shishōsetsu are explored as stories of constructing identities between cultures, languages, literary canons, and testimonies of untranslatability of the self.

ISBN: 9783631829196

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 411g

262 pages

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