Description
Book SynopsisHow Japan’s most canonical postwar writer brought that country’s largest social minority into the mainstream.
Trade Review"Anne McKnight’s proposal that we understand Nakagami’s writings in terms of a ‘parallax vision’ immediately resonates in the mind of anyone familiar with his works: it is an approach that finally allows Nakagami to be Nakagami. We know that we need to get outside the framework of national literary studies, but that is a task easier said than done. McKnight goes a good deal of the way toward showing us what is to be done now in the study of both Japanese literature and minority cultures." —Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: I Is an Other
1. An Archive of Activism
2. Confession and the Crisis of Buraku Writing in the 1970s
3. Constituents of National Literature
4. Inaudible Man
5. The 8th Parallax: Nakagami in/and Korea
6. Subculture and the South
Conclusion
Notes
Index
