Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction

by Eve Zimmerman

The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Drawing upon the lives, experiences, and languages of the burakumin, the outcaste communities long discriminated against in Japanese society as a defiled underclass, Nakagami's works of fiction and nonfiction record with vitality and violence the realities--actual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026039
• ISBN13: 9780674026032
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"