Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bridges, William H. (1983-....)
Titre(s) : Playing in the shadows [Texte imprimé] : fictions of race and blackness in postwar Japanese literature / Will Bridges
Publication : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-296 p.) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; 88
Lien à la collection : Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Playing in the Shadows explores the body of literature arising from post-World War
II Japanese authors' robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African
Americana. Rather than solely focusing on representations of African Americans in
Japanese literature, this manuscript argues that the black characters who rise to
the textual surface are just the tip of the signifying iceberg. Beneath those representations
-- or, as Professor Bridges argues, even in the absence of overt representations of
black characters, there runs a rich history of Afro-Japanese literary and cultural
exchange, as well as a history characterized by cross-cultural-pollination and creative
experimentation that spans the Pacific. By tracing how blackness is written in and
into Japanese literature, this book argues that fictions of race provide visions of
the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies:
in bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Fictions of race and blackness in postwar Japanese literature
Sujet(s) : Vie intellectuelle -- Japon -- 1945-....
Civilisation -- Japon -- Influence américaine
Race -- Dans la littérature
Noirs -- Dans la littérature
Littérature japonaise -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780472074426. - ISBN 0472074423. - ISBN 9780472054428. - ISBN 0472054422. -
ISBN 9780472126521 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46604935f
Notice n° :
FRBNF46604935
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : Playing in the shadows, fictions of race, and blackness in postwar
Japanese literature ; Unspeakable things unspoken: Moments of silence, racial preoccupation,
and the hauntology of blackness in the literature of occupied Japan ; In the beginning:
Ōe Kenzaburō and the creative nonfiction of blackness ; Of passing significance:
Pronominal politics, Nakagami Kenji, and the fiction of “Burakuness” ; Genre trouble:
Breaking the law of genre and literary blackness in the long 19702 ; Japanese literature
in the age of hip hop: A mic check ; Conclusion: Parallax vision and playing in the
shadows ; lsewhere and otherwise.
