Ama The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8143-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ama, Michihiro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Notes about Japanese Names

Introduction

1. A Disciplinary Divide and the Conceptual Framework of the Present Study

Part I: Writing Personal Fiction as a Confessional and Religious Practice

2. Modern Japanese Writers as Lay Buddhist Practitioners

3. Ari no mama as Literary and Buddhist Discourse

4. Shin Buddhist Confession and Literary Practice

5. A Shin Buddhist Historical Novel

Part II: The Buddhist Reading of Personal Fiction

6. Buddhist Words and Buddhist Symbols in Personal Novels

7. Buddhist Attainment and Mystical Experience

8. Literary Representations of Buddhist Funerals

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Translation of the Preface to Before and after My Rebirth by Akegarasu Haya

Appendix 2: Translation of the Preface to Guardians of the Dharma Castle by Matsuoka Yuzuru

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michihiro Ama is Karashima Tsukasa Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana. He is the author of Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898–1941.