LEADER 03157nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910820376603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-8672-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347097 035 $a(EBL)310358 035 $a(OCoLC)476094078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208165 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208165 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240166 035 $a(PQKB)10892798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310358 035 $a(OCoLC)232159866 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310358 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159388 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522564 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347097 100 $a19950914d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNarratives of agency $eself-making in China, India, and Japan /$fWimal Dissanayake, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-2657-X 311 $a0-8166-2656-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a9 The Nail That Came Out All the Way: Hayashi Takeshi's Case against the Regulation of the Japanese Student BodyContributors; Index 330 $aThis 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 606 $aSelf 606 $aIndividuality 606 $aSubjectivity 607 $aChina$xCivilization 607 $aIndia$xCivilization 607 $aJapan$xCivilization 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aIndividuality. 615 0$aSubjectivity. 676 $a302.54095 676 $a950 701 $aDissanayake$b Wimal$0532319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820376603321 996 $aNarratives of agency$93972995 997 $aUNINA