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Offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship - relationality with the other through the skin - of modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable - that is, the lack of complete ability of characters to touch what they try to reach for - provides a critical intervention on the issue of intimacy.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Literary Touch as a Mediator of the (dis)Embodied
  • I: The Unreachable: Yearning, Reciprocity, Object Relations
  • II: Touch in Plays of Distance, Shadow, Light
  • III: Mediated Touch: Membrane, Skin, the “I”
  • IV: Renewing Relationship through the Skin
  • Conclusion: Touching through Language
  • Bibliography

Touching the Unreachable

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 9/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472054985, 978-0472054985
      ISBN10: 0472054988

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship - relationality with the other through the skin - of modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable - that is, the lack of complete ability of characters to touch what they try to reach for - provides a critical intervention on the issue of intimacy.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Introduction: Literary Touch as a Mediator of the (dis)Embodied
      • I: The Unreachable: Yearning, Reciprocity, Object Relations
      • II: Touch in Plays of Distance, Shadow, Light
      • III: Mediated Touch: Membrane, Skin, the “I”
      • IV: Renewing Relationship through the Skin
      • Conclusion: Touching through Language
      • Bibliography

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