LEADER 04123nam 22006253 450 001 9910880001203321 005 20240826084506.0 010 $a9780520400276 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520400276 035 $a(CKB)34195200500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31594312 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31594312 035 $a(DE-B1597)690520 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520400276 035 $a(EXLCZ)9934195200500041 100 $a20240826d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScripting Suicide in Japan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) 225 1 $aNew Interventions in Japanese Studies ;$vv.5 311 08$a9780520400269 327 $aCover -- Lilienthal Imprint -- Subvention -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Names, Romanization, and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thoughts at the Precipice -- Part One. Mapping Suicide: Jisatsu Meisho, the Poetic Places of Suicide -- 2. Mount Mihara's Same-Sex Suicides and Flippant Flips -- 3. Suicide Maps and Manuals -- 4. Aokigahara Jukai, Sea of Trees -- Part Two. Noting Suicide: Isho, the Writings Left Behind -- 5. A Note to an Old Friend, or Two -- 6. A Note for Oneself -- 7. A Note to the Nation -- 8. Autothanatography, or the Exorbitant Call to Write One's Own Death -- Part Three. Mourning in Multimedia -- 9. Copycat Poets and Suicides -- 10. Death in Mixed Media -- Epilogue: Dialoguing with the Dead -- Notes -- References -- Index. 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand, without careful attention to the words of the dead themselves. Drawing upon far-ranging creations by famous twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese writers and little-known amateurs alike--such as death poems, suicide notes, memorials, suicide maps and manuals, works of literature, photography, film, and manga--Kirsten Cather interrogates how suicide is scripted and to what end. Entering the orbit of suicidal writers and readers with care, she shows that through close readings these works can reveal fundamental beliefs about suicide and, just as crucially, about acts of writing. These are not scripts set in stone but graven images and words nonetheless that serve to mourn the dead, straddling two impulses: to put the dead to rest and to keep them alive forever. These words reach out to us to initiate a dialogue with the dead, one that can reveal why it matters to write into and from the void. 410 0$aNew Interventions in Japanese Studies 606 $aAuthors, Japanese$xSuicidal behavior$y20th century 606 $aAuthors, Japanese$xSuicidal behavior$y21st century 606 $aSuicide and literature$zJapan$y20th century 606 $aSuicide and literature$zJapan$y21st century 606 $aSuicide in literature 606 $aSuicide$xSocial aspects$zJapan$y20th century 606 $aSuicide$xSocial aspects$zJapan$y21st century 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies$2bisacsh 615 0$aAuthors, Japanese$xSuicidal behavior 615 0$aAuthors, Japanese$xSuicidal behavior 615 0$aSuicide and literature 615 0$aSuicide and literature 615 0$aSuicide in literature. 615 0$aSuicide$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSuicide$xSocial aspects 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies. 676 $a895.6 700 $aCather$b Kirsten$01765545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910880001203321 996 $aScripting Suicide in Japan$94207274 997 $aUNINA