Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism

by Miryam Sas

Book Overview

How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early twentieth century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings. It opens a theoretical treatment of cultural memory, influence, visuality, writing, nostalgia, and nation to suggest a new perspective for the reading of modern Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804736499
• ISBN13: 9780804736497
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"