Narrating the Self
by Suzuki, TomiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-07-01
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Tomi Suzuki is Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York.
Table of Contents
| 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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