Postmodernity and cross-culturalism
By: edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.
Contributors: Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison, NJ; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "This collection of eleven essays with an introduction examines postmodernity, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in cross-culturalism. In the west, modernity, which flourished in the early decades of the twentieth century, is characterized by a synchronic and nonnarrative mode of thought and a manner of writing in opposition to mimetic realism.

Whereas the text of modernity thrived on its rhythms, symbols, and representations of beauty, and above all on its impersonality, postmodernity in the late decades of the twentieth century sought relationships outside the text - those between literature and history, philosophy, psychology, society, and culture. The exploration of such relationships is literary to postmodernity as it is ancillary to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI 7; title: 1. No Place I Was Meant to Be: Postmodern Japan; title: in Haruki Murakami's Fiction; title: CELESTE LOUGHMAN 17; title: 2. Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe; title: SHOJI GOTO 31; title: 3. Richard Wright's Pagan Spain and; title: Cross-Cultural Discourse; title: YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI 43; title: 4. Rushdie's Midnights Children, Meditation, and the Postmodern; title: Conception of History; title: McKAY JENKINS 62; title: 5. "Three Meals a Day and the Fun of It": Existential Hunger; title: and the Magnificent/Seven/Samurai; title: SHAWN ST. JEAN 76; title: 6. On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and; title: Local Tradition in Please Turn Off the Lights; title: JINHEE KIM 88; title: 7. Linguistic Conservatism, National Identity, and; title: the Postcolonial Indian Novel; title: AJANTA DUTT 106; title: 8. "Japan Has Become the Sign": Identity and History in; title: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee; title: NICOLE COOLEY 117; title: 9. Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in; title: Alice Walker's The Color Purple; title: YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI 144; title: 10. Emerson, Lacan, and Zen: Transcendental and; title: Postmodern Conceptions of the Eastern Subject; title: ROBERT SAMUELS 157; title: 11. North American Versions of Haibun and; title: Postmodern American Culture; title: BRUCE Ross 168; title: Contributors 201; title: Index 205.