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Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Autor Christopher Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iul 2024
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to new possibilities. By applying this theoretical framework of anachronism to several Japanese literary and cultural works, the book demonstrates how different texts can use anachronism to open up history for a wide variety of different textual projects. 

From the modern period, author Christopher Smith examines literature by Mori Ōgai and Ōe Kenzaburō, manga by Tezuka Osamu, art by Murakami Takashi, and a variety of other pop cultural works. Turning to the Early Modern period (Edo period, 1600–1868), which produced a literature rich with playful anachronism, he also examines several Kabuki and Bunraku plays, kibyōshi comic books, and gōkan illustrated novels. In analyzing these works, he draws a distinction between anachronisms that attempt to hide their work on history and convincingly rewrite it and those conspicuous anachronisms that highlight and disrupt the construction of historical narratives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472056873
ISBN-10: 0472056875
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 12 photographs, cartoons, and drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies


Notă biografică

Christopher Smith is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Florida.

Cuprins

Introduction: Seeing Anachronism
Structure of the book    
Chapter 1: Towards a Theory of Anachronism    
Chapter 2: From Monologic to Dialogic    
Samurai as Modern Subject in Mori Ōgai’s “Abe ichizoku”
Bushi and Bourgeois: Monologic Marxism in Kamui-den
A Riot of Anachronism: History and power in Man’en gannen no futtobōru    
Resistance to Monologue
Dreaming in anachronism
Chapter 3: Gags With An Agenda: Anachronism In Tezuka Osamu’s Hi No Tori
Dismantling National Myth with Anachronism
Benkei and the Denaturing of Loyalty
Chapter 4: Speaking The Same Language: Anachronisms Of Interoperability In Contemporary Popular Culture
The City of the Future is Edo: Seibā marionetto J
Anachronistic Interoperability of State Institutions in Naruto
Samurai who read Shōnen Jump in Gintama
Hip-Hop and Anachronistic Marginality in Samurai chanpurū
Riffs on Tradition: Interoperability in Visual Art
The Severing of Tradition in the Works of Murakami Takashi
Defiantly Appropriating the Past in the Paintings of Tenmyouya Hisashi
Displacing the Samurai in the Works of Noguchi Tetsuya    
Chapter 5: Playing With Samurai: Anachronism In Edo Literature
Ōmu-gaeshi bunbu no futamichi
Daihi no senrokuhon
Nise Murasaki inaka Genji
Chapter 6: Acting Out The Past: Anachronism In Edo Theatre
Metadramatic anachronism
Appropriating Samurai Heroes in Sukeroku yukari no Edo-zakura
The mago-deshi of the Ancients: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Sexy Heroes in Yoshitsune senbon zakura
Conclusion
Bibliography

Descriere

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products