{"product_id":"the-i-in-the-making-rethinking-the-japanese-shishosetsu-in-a-global-age-9783631829196","title":"The “I” in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book centres around the topic of subjectivity and self-representation in contemporary Japanese literature and offers a new approach to the genre of \u003cem\u003eshishōsetsu\u003c\/em\u003e (the I-novel). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt reassesses the works of Dazai Osamu, Ōe Kenzaburō, Endō Shūsaku, Murakami Haruki, and of the translingual writers - Mizumura Minae, Hideo Levy, Tawada Yōko - to expose the wide-ranging treatment of personal experiences, and the intricate relations between the characters, the narrator, and the writing persona.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the context of world fiction and autobiography theories, the book investigates literary and linguistic challenges in expressing the “self.” The \u003cem\u003eshishōsetsu \u003c\/em\u003eare explored as stories of constructing identities between cultures, languages, literary canons, and testimonies of untranslatability of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelf and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese fiction – theories in autobiography (Paul Ricoeur, Philippe Lejeune, John Paul Eakin, Serge Doubrovsky) – world literature – comparative literature – cultural translation – cognitive functions of untranslatability – authorship in Japanese literature","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044500013399,"sku":"9783631829196","price":41.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631829196.jpg?v=1750961822","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-i-in-the-making-rethinking-the-japanese-shishosetsu-in-a-global-age-9783631829196","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}