The "I" in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese shishosetsu in a Global Age
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.

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The "I" in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese shishosetsu in a Global Age
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.

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The "I" in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese shishosetsu in a Global Age

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The "I" in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese shishosetsu in a Global Age

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631829196
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 12/21/2020
Series: Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures , #6
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Justyna Weronika Kasza is an associate professor at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught courses in Japanese language, literature, and translation at universities in England and Poland. She is the recipient of the Japan Foundation Fellowships and has conducted her research at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her research interests include the works of Endō Shūsaku, life-writing narratives in Japan, world literature and translation theories.

Table of Contents

Self and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese fiction – theories in autobiography (Paul Ricoeur, Philippe Lejeune, John Paul Eakin, Serge Doubrovsky) – world literature – comparative literature – cultural translation – cognitive functions of untranslatability – authorship in Japanese literature
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