TY  - BOOK
AU  - Justyna Weronika Kasza
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631833575
TI  - The “I” in the Making
T2  - Rethinking the Japanese shishōsetsu in a Global Age
DO  - 10.3726/b17490
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056744
N2  - The book centres around the topic of subjectivity and self-representation in contemporary Japanese literature and offers a new approach to the genre of shishōsetsu (the I-novel).  It 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. In the context of world fiction and autobiography theories, the book investigates literary and linguistic challenges in expressing the “self.” The shishōsetsu are explored as stories of constructing identities between cultures, languages, literary canons, and testimonies of untranslatability of the self.
KW  - Contemporary Japanese literature, Life-writing narratives, World literature, Comparative literature, Global studies, Literary theory
LA  - English
ER  -