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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWolfe, Alan Stephen
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245 1 0 _aSuicidal Narrative in Modern Japan :
_bThe Case of Dazai Osamu /
_cAlan Stephen Wolfe.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
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490 0 _aStudies of the East Asian Institute ;
_v1077
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPREFACE --
_tIntroduction. SAINT OF NEGATIVITY Introduction SAINT OF NEGATIVITY --
_tPART ONE: Nation and Suicidal Narrative --
_tChapter One. FROM SEPPUKUTOJISATSU: SUICIDE AS NATIONAL ALLEGORY --
_tChapter Two. TWO TALES OF SUICIDE: SOCIO-LITERARY COMPLICITIES IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION --
_tPART TWO: Suicidal Autobiography --
_tChapter Three. NOVEL, GHOSTLY, AND NEGATIVE SELVES --
_tChapter Four. THE LAST OF THE I-NOVELISTS --
_tChapter Five. DYING TWICE: ALLEGORIES OF IMPOSSIBILITY --
_tPART THREE: Japanese Litteraturicide and Postwar Rebirth --
_tChapter Six. DEATHSCRIPT: SUICIDE AS POLITICAL SURVIVAL --
_tChapter Seven. ALLEGORICAL UNDOINGS --
_tChapter Eight. JAPANESE RESSENTIMENT --
_tEpilogue. POSTMODERN POSTMORTEM --
_tNOTES --
_tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
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520 _aDazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure. In the process, Wolfe revises Japanese as well as Western scholarship on Dazai and discovers new connections among suicide, autobiography, alienation, and modernization. As shown here, Dazai's writings resist narrative and historical closure; while he may be said to serve the Japanese literary establishment as both romantic decadent and representative scapegoat, his texts reveal a deconstructive edge through which his posthumous status as a monument of negativity is already perceived and undone. Wolfe maintains that cultural modernization pits a Western concept of the individual as realized self and coherent subject against an Eastern absent self--and that a felt need to overcome this tension inspires the autobiographical fiction so prevalent in Japanese novels. Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan shows that Dazai's texts also resist readings that would resolve the gaps (East/West, self/other, modern/premodern) still prevalent in Japanese intellectual life.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aSuicide in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General.
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