Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

by Atsuko Sakaki

Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and Kusamakura ( The Three-Cornered World ); Ibuse Masuji's Kuroi ame ( Black Rain ); Mori ogai's Gan ( Wild Geese ); and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Manji ( Quicksand ). Her close reading of each text reveals a hitherto unexplored area of communication between narrator and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674750942
• ISBN13: 9780674750944
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"