The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36591-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

In The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought, Dennitza Gabrakova discusses how the island imagery in the works by Imafuku Ryuta, Ukai Satoshi, Oba Minako, Ariyoshi Sawako, Hino Keizo, Ikezawa Natsuki, Shimada Masahiko and Tawada Yoko shapes a critical understanding of Japan on multiple intersections of trauma and sovereignty.
The book attempts an engagement with the vocabulary of postcolonial critique, while attending to the complexity of its translation into Japanese.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gabrakova, Dennitza

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

1 Archipelagic Thought and Theory’s Gift

2 Translating Shame and the Wound of Ethnicity

3 Insular Hauntings: Trauma, Reproduction, and Island Doubles

4 Insular Negotiations: Sovereignty, Development, and Festivity

5 Islands of Translation

6 Islands of Trauma and Sovereignty

Conclusion: Towards the Sea of Islands

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dennitza Gabrakova, Ph. D. (2007), University of Tokyo, is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of The Dream of Weeds: Home and Hope in Modern Japan (in Japanese, Seori shobo, 2012) discussing the environmental poetics of development.