{"product_id":"faulkner-and-oe-9780761836636","title":"Faulkner and Oe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese novelist who won the 1994 Noble prize in literature, William Faulkner is not so much a father of Yoknapatawpha as he is a critic of the masculine possessiveness attributed to the creation of the imaginary county. Faulkner and Oe: The Self-Critical Imagination focuses on the Faulknerian influence on Oe''s satirical or self-critical imagination-especially on his feminist or hermaphroditic criticism of the male I contained within the shosetsu (novel). Akio Kimura expertly investigates Oe''s feminist turn in his novels in the 1980s as a criticism of this I as an authoritarian first-person narrator. Oe considers this concept to be a disruptive reflection of Japanese society''s established order.  Oe''s response to such a disruption is the introduction of a series of metaphors utilized in order to represent Faulkner''s individualism and the subsequent deconstruction of Japanese autocracy. Drawing on Kofman, Irigaray, and Derrida, this book explores how Faulkner''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 A Yoknapatawpha of Oe's Own Chapter 5 The Feminine Chapter 6 The \"Problems of the Spirit\" \/ the \"Matters of the Soul\" Chapter 7 Oe's \"I\" and Faulkner's \"is\" Part 8 Bibliography Part 9 Index Part 10 About the Author","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037806625111,"sku":"9780761836636","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761836636.jpg?v=1750937416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faulkner-and-oe-9780761836636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}