Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature Volume 102

by Christopher Smith

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to new possibilities. By applying this theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472076876
• ISBN13: 9780472076871
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 242 Pages