1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092645903321

Autore

Hogue W. Lawrence <1951->

Titolo

Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / / W. Lawrence Hogue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9781461952411

1461952417

9781438448367

1438448368

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9286/08996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Intellectual life

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Subjectivity in literature

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

Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911088944803321

Titolo

Perversion and modern Japan : psychoanalysis, literature, culture / / edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-134-03153-X

1-134-03154-8

1-282-56902-3

9786612569029

0-203-88042-0

9780203880425

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

Altri autori (Persone)

CornyetzNina

VincentKeith <1968->

Disciplina

302.5420952

302.542095209045

Soggetti

Deviant behavior - Japan

Psychoanalysis and literature - Japan

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 (pages [308]-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Introduction: Japan as screen-memory: psychoanalysis and history; 1 Introduction: Bruce Suttmeier: Speculations of murder . . .; 1 Speculations of murder: Ghostly dreams, poisonous frogs and the case of Yokoi Shoichi; 2 Introduction: Carl Cassegard: Japan's lost decade and its two recoveries . . .; 2 Japan's lost decade and its two recoveries: On Sawaragi Noi, Japanese Neo-pop and anti-war activism; 3 Introduction: Yutaka Nagahara: The corporeal principles of the national polity . . .

3 The corporeal principles of the national polity: The rhetoric of the body of the nation, or the state as memory-apparatus4 Introduction: Ayelet Zohar: Pelluses/Phani . . .; 4 Pelluses/phani: The multiplication, displacement and appropriations of the phallus; 5 Introduction: Nina Cornyetz: Penisular cartography; 5 Penisular cartography: Topology in Nakagami Kenji's Kishu; 6 Introduction: Margherita Long: Two ways to



play fort-da . . .; 6 Two ways to play fort-da: In Yoshino with Tanizaki and Freud; 7 Introduction: Gavin Walker: The double scission of Mishima Yukio . . .

7 The double scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and anxieties in the autofictional machine8 Introduction: Dawn Lawson: Navigating the inner sea . . .; 8 Navigating the inner sea: Utsumi Bunzo's affects in Ukigumo; 9 Introduction: Irena Hayter: In the flesh . . .; 9 In the flesh: The historical unconscious of Ishikawa Jun's Fugen; 10 Introduction: J. Keith Vincent: Sexuality and narrative in Soseki's Kokoro . . .; 10 Sexuality and narrative in: Soseki's Kokoro: "At last, I was able to read Sensei's letter from beginning to end"

10 Sexuality and narrative in Soseki's Kokoro: "At last, I was able to read Sensei's letter from beginning to end"11 Introduction: Christopher Hill: Exhausted by their battles with the world . . .; 11 Exhausted by their battles with the world: Neurasthenia and civilization critique in early twentieth-century Japan; 12 Introduction: Kazushige Shingu: Freud, Lacan and Japan; 12 Freud, Lacan and Japan; 13 Introduction: Jonathan E. Abel: Packaging desires . . .; 13 Packaging desires: The unmentionables of Japanese film; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? And how are we to understand the re-awakening of collective memory occasioned by the sudden appearance of a Japanese Imperial soldier stumbling out of the jungle in Guam in 1972? In addressing these and other questions, the essays collected here theorize the relation of u