{"product_id":"suicidal-narrative-in-modern-japan-9780691607832","title":"Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. xiii*Introduction. SAINT OF NEGATIVITY Introduction SAINT OF NEGATIVITY, pg. 3*Chapter One. FROM SEPPUKUTOJISATSU: SUICIDE AS NATIONAL ALLEGORY, pg. 21*Chapter Two. TWO TALES OF SUICIDE: SOCIO-LITERARY COMPLICITIES IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION, pg. 48*Chapter Three. NOVEL, GHOSTLY, AND NEGATIVE SELVES, pg. 79*Chapter Four. THE LAST OF THE I-NOVELISTS, pg. 97*Chapter Five. DYING TWICE: ALLEGORIES OF IMPOSSIBILITY, pg. 120*Chapter Six. DEATHSCRIPT: SUICIDE AS POLITICAL SURVIVAL, pg. 147*Chapter Seven. ALLEGORICAL UNDOINGS, pg. 165*Chapter Eight. JAPANESE RESSENTIMENT, pg. 185*Epilogue. POSTMODERN POSTMORTEM, pg. 212*NOTES, pg. 225*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 247*INDEX, pg. 257","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49922433024343,"sku":"9780691607832","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691607832.jpg?v=1738537868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suicidal-narrative-in-modern-japan-9780691607832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}