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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fuminobu murakami”
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  • Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

    A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

    by Fuminobu Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work.Presenting ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature

    Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

    by Fuminobu Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.The term strong refers not just to those with strength and power. It also includes other ideal attributes such as beauty, youth and goodness. Similarly, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Akinari Ueda ...
    Translated by Anthony Chambers ...
    First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu.The title Ugetsu monogatari ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Woman in the Shaman's Body

    Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine

    by Barbara Tedlock Ph.D. ...
    A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Yoko Tawada

    Voices from Everywhere

    by Hiltrud Arens, Bernard Banoun, Bettina Brandt, Suzuko Mousel Knott, Christina Kraenzle, Margaret Mitsutani, Marjorie Perloff, Keijiro Suga, Reiko Tachibana, Yasemin Yildiz ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Story of Stone

    Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West

    by Jing Wang ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography

    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Dawn That Never Comes

    Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

    by Michael Bourdaghs ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan.Analyzing ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

    Companion Volume I

    Edited by Ronald E. Emmerick, Maria Macuch ...
    Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Postcolonial Yearning

    Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature

    by A. Sen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Few Good Women

    America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee ...
    In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s ... Read more

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  • Practical Ethics for Our Time

    by Eiji Uehiro ...
    Translated by Carl Becker ...
    A scathing critique of the global consumer culture that's bound to cause controversy among Western readers, Practical Ethics for Our Time argues that Japan's future success as a nation depends upon the ability of its citizens to uphold traditional family values and to fashion new, environmentally sustainable patterns in their daily lives.Mr. Uehiro's argument is not unfamiliar. He posits that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD