{"product_id":"nakagami-japan-buraku-and-the-writing-of-ethnicity-paperback-softback-9780816672868","title":"Nakagami, Japan; Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816672868","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNakagami, Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBuraku and the Writing of Ethnicity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne McKnight (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816672868\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anne McKnight’s proposal that we understand Nakagami’s writings in terms of a ‘parallax vision’ immediately resonates in the mind of anyone familiar with his works: it is an approach that finally allows Nakagami to be Nakagami. We know that we need to get outside the framework of national literary studies, but that is a task easier said than done. McKnight goes a good deal of the way toward showing us what is to be done now in the study of both Japanese literature and minority cultures.\" -Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eHow do you write yourself into a literature that doesn’t know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946–1992), who counted himself among the \u003ci\u003eburaku-min\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan’s largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical traditions of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e writing into the high culture of Japanese literature for the first time and helped establish him as the most canonical writer born in postwar Japan.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNakagami\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan, Anne McKnight shows how the writer’s exploration of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e led to a unique blend of fiction and ethnography-which amounted to nothing less than a reimagining of modern Japanese literature. McKnight develops a parallax view of Nakagami’s achievement, allowing us to see him much as he saw himself, as a writer whose accomplishments traversed both \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e literary arts and high literary culture in Japan. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAs she considers the ways in which Nakagami and other twentieth-century writers used ethnography to shape Japanese literature, McKnight reveals how ideas about language also imagined a transfigured relation to mainstream culture and politics. Her analysis of the resulting “rhetorical activism” lays bare Nakagami’s unique blending of literature and ethnography within the context of twentieth-century ideas about race, ethnicity, and citizenship-in Japan, but also on an international scale.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: I Is an Other\u003cbr\u003e 1. An Archive of Activism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Confession and the Crisis of Buraku Writing in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e 3. Constituents of National Literature\u003cbr\u003e 4. Inaudible Man\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 8th Parallax: Nakagami in\/and Korea\u003cbr\u003e 6. Subculture and the South\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570078839064,"sku":"9780816672868","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/nakagami-japan-buraku-and-the-writing-of-ethnicity-paperback-softback-9780816672868","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}