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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457396603321

Titolo

Narratives of agency [[electronic resource] ] : self-making in China, India, and Japan / / Wimal Dissanayake, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8672-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DissanayakeWimal

Disciplina

302.54095

950

Soggetti

Self

Individuality

Subjectivity

Electronic books.

China Civilization

India Civilization

Japan Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Agency and Cultural Understanding: Some Preliminary Remarks; 1 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West; 2 Samsara: Self and the Crisis of Visual Narrative; 3 Visual Agency and Ideological Fantasy in Three Films by Zhang Yimou; 4 Contesting and Contested Identities: Mathura's Chaubes; 5 Self-Made; 6 Defining the Self in Indian Literary and Filmic Texts; 7 Selves and Others in Japanese Culture in Historical Perspective; 8 Self, Agency, and Cultural Knowledge: Reflections on Three Japanese Films

9 The Nail That Came Out All the Way: Hayashi Takeshi's Case against the Regulation of the Japanese Student BodyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency-defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a



deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan. In Narratives of Agency, scholars from a variety of disciplines argue that traditional Western approaches to the study of these cultures have unduly focused on the pervasive influence of