Translating Mount Fuji
Subtitle: modern Japanese fiction and the ethics of identity
By: Dennis Washburn.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780231138925
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 1868- -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism; National characteristics in literature; Nationalism and literature -- Japan
Description: "Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Yokomitsu Riichi, Ooka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia." "A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.