Figures of resistance : language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts /

Figures of resistance : language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts /

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Author / Creator:	Okada, H. Richard.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
Description:	x, 388 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Post-contemporary interventions Post-contemporary interventions.
Subject:	Japanese literature -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- History and criticism. Japanese literature -- Heian period. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7901654

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ISBN:	0822311925 (paper : alk. paper) 9780822311928 (paper : alk. paper) 0822311852 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822311850 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-376) and index. Also issued online.
Summary:	In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The tale of the bamboo-cutter, The tale of Ise, and The tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to suggest that this universalist discourse, which silences the feminine aspects of these texts and subsumes their writing in misapplied Western canonical literary terms, is sanctioned and maintained by the discipline of Japanese literature. Okada develops a highly original and sophisticated reading strategy that demonstrates how readers might understand texts belonging to a different time and place without being complicit in their assimilation to categories derived from Western literary traditions. The author's reading strategy is based on the texts' own resistance to modes of analysis that employ such Western canonical terms as novel, lyric, and third-person narrative. Emphasis is also given to the distinctive cultural circles, as well as socio-political and genealogical circumstances that surrounded the emergence of the texts.

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