Nakagami, Japan [[electronic resource] ] : Buraku and the writing of ethnicity / / Anne McKnight

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460078603321
• Autore: McKnight Anne <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-4529-4732-5; 0-8166-7700-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 895.6/35
• Soggetti: Buraku people in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Electronic books.
• 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: Introduction : I is an other -- An archive of activism -- Confession and the crisis of Buraku writing in the 1970s -- Constituents of national literature -- Inaudible man -- The 38th parallax: Nakagami in/and Korea -- Subculture and the south.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946û1992), who counted himself among the buraku-min, Japan's largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical traditions of buraku 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.In Nakagami, Japan, Anne McKnight shows how the writer's exploration of buraku led to a unique blend of fiction and ethnographyù which amounted to nothing less than a reimagining