Bourdaghs A Fictional Commons

Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2192-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten

Michael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Soseki—widely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelist—as critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourdaghs, Michael K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Usage ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Owning up to Soseki 1
1. Fables of Property: Nameless Cats, Trickster Badgers, Stray Sheep 13
2. House under a Shadow: Disowning the Psychology of Possessive Individualism in The Gate 51
3. Property and Sociological Knowledge: Soseki and the Gift of Narrative 91
4. The Tragedy of the Market:Younger Brothers, Women, and Colonial Subjects in Kokoro 121
Conclusion. Who Owns Soseki? Or, How Not to Belong in World Literature 147
Notes 177
Bibliography 205
Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, coeditor of Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.