Translating Mount Fuji : Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity.
Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi,?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a na...
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Columbia University Press,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Real Identities; 1. Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts; 2. Translating Mount Fuji; 3. Manly Virtue and Modern Identity; 4. Real Images; 5. Toward a View from Nowhere; 6. Kitsch, Nihilism, and the Inauthentic; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
