{"product_id":"double-visions-double-fictions-the-doppelganger-in-japanese-film-and-literature-9781517902636","title":"Double Visions, Double Fictions: The Doppelgänger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word \u003ci\u003eDoppelgänger\u003c\/i\u003e (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif of doubling can also be seen traversing historical and cultural boundaries. \u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the myriad manifestations of the doppelgänger in Japanese literary and cinematic texts at two historical junctures: the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s and the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e According to author Baryon Tensor Posadas, the doppelgänger marks the intersection of the historical impact of psychoanalytic theory, the genre of detective fiction in Japan, early Japanese cinema, and the cultural production of Japanese colonialism. He examines the doppelgänger’s appearance in the works of Edogawa Rampo, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, as well as the films of Tsukamoto Shin’ya and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, not only as a recurrent motif but also as a critical practice of concepts. Following these explorations, Posadas asks: What were the social, political, and material conditions that mobilized the desire for the doppelgänger? And how does the dopplegänger capture social transformations taking place at these historical moments?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately reveals how the doppelgänger motif provides a fascinating new backdrop for understanding the enmeshment of past and present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly fresh contribution to Japanese literary and film studies by way of an ingenious examination of the doppelgänger. For Baryon Tensor Posadas, the doppelgänger functions not merely as a crafty aesthetic device, but as an actual conceptual practice mobilized by some of Japan’s most important modern writers and filmmakers.\"—Eric Cazdyn, University of Toronto \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Baryon Tensor Posadas carefully traces the appearance and proliferation of the doppelgänger in Japan across various cultural and intellectual domains, including literature, cinema, and psychoanalysis. In his masterful analysis, the doppelgänger is not merely one figure among others, but rather, in its destabilizing effect on concepts of origin and imitation, one that highlights the core conflicts underlying modernity in Japan, including its fraught relation to the West and its emergence as a colonial power.\"—Seiji Lippit, author of \u003ci\u003eTopographies of Japanese Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The doppelgänger haunts, not only as a double but also through its multiple iterations. Approaching this uncanny figure as a form of a genre, \u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on an exciting intellectual adventure, tracing its recursions through various media forms and a broad span of historical periods in modern and contemporary Japan.\"—Tomiko Yoda, Harvard University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eDouble Visions, Double Fictions \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliantly written piece that sheds light on the impression the doppelgänger motif had on Japan’s film and political culture in the early twentieth century. \"—\u003ci\u003eFilm Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. A Strange Mirror: The Doppelgänger in Japan\u003cbr\u003e1. Stalkers and Crime Scenes: The Detective Fiction of Edogawa Rampo\u003cbr\u003e2. Repressing the Colonial Unconscious: Racialized Doppelgängers\u003cbr\u003e3. Projections of Shadow: Visual Modernization and Psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003e4. Rampo’s Repetitions: Confession, Adaptation, and the Historical Unconscious\u003cbr\u003e5. Compulsions to Repeat: The Doppelgänger at the End of History\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409696334167,"sku":"9781517902636","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517902636.jpg?v=1730507714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/double-visions-double-fictions-the-doppelganger-in-japanese-film-and-literature-9781517902636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}