A Room Where The Star Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard

Author : Hideo Levy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231527972

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A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard by Hideo Levy Pdf

Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict authority and the trappings of an America culture that has grown increasingly remote, Ben flees home to live with Ando, his Japanese friend. Refusing to speak English with Ben, Ando shows the young American the way to Shinjuku, the epicenter of Japan's countercultural movement and the closest Ben has ever felt to home. From the vantage point of a privileged and alienated "outsider" (gaijin), Levy's narrative, which echoes events in his own life, beautifully captures a heady, eventful moment in Japanese history. It also richly renders the universal struggle to grasp the full contours of one's identity. Wandering the streets of Shinjuku, Ben can barely decipher the signs around him or make sense of the sounds reaching his ears. Eventually, the symbols and sensations take root, and he becomes one with Japanese language and culture. Through his explorations, Ben breaks free from English and the constraints of being a gaijin. Levy's coming-of-age novel is an eloquent elegy to a lost time.

Author : Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811085123

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Mother-Tongue in Modern Japanese Literature and Criticism by Takayuki Yokota-Murakami Pdf

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature. Through the insights of recent philosophical/linguistic theories, it reveals the political problems of the notion of “mother-tongue” in literary and linguistic theories and proposes strategies to realize genuinely “exophonic” and “translational” literature beyond the confines of nation. Examining the notion of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism, the author deconstructs the concept and language itself as an apparatus of nation-state in order to imagine alternative literature, genuinely creolized and heterogeneous. Offering a comparative, transnational perspective on the significance of the mother tongue in contemporary literatures, this is a key read for students of modern Japanese literature, language and culture, as well as those interested in theories of translation and bilingualism.

Author : Mutsuko Endo Hudson,Yoshiko Matsumoto,Junko Mori
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264404

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Pragmatics of Japanese by Mutsuko Endo Hudson,Yoshiko Matsumoto,Junko Mori Pdf

Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters address a variety of traditional and emerging topics by adopting diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks and presenting a range of perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture. They demonstrate a wide scope of pragmatics research informed by, as well as informing, usage-based grammar, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Chapters also consider future directions as to how the study of Japanese language in use will continue to offer critical data and analyses to the field dominated by the study of English and other European languages. This volume is certain to be of interest to students and scholars engaged in pragmatics in general and the Japanese language in particular.

Author : Alex Bates
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295956

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Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction by Alex Bates Pdf

As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation's changing relationship to other Asian countries and to the West. This volume will help instructors introduce students to novels, short stories, and manga that confront postwar Japanese experiences, including the suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the echoes of Japan's colonialism and imperialism, new ways of thinking about Japanese identity and about minorities such as the zainichi Koreans, changes in family structures, and environmental disasters. Essays provide context for understanding the particularity of postwar Japanese literature, its place in world literature, and its connections to the Japanese past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004363243

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Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945 by Anonim Pdf

This is the first volume to present an international overview of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing in 14 national contexts and a conclusion discussing this writing as a vanguard of cultural change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462969

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The Trans-Pacific Imagination by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tuna Cole
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781365900112

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Demons Be Gone, A Romance by Tuna Cole Pdf

Keywords: Japan/Nippon; history, culture, language, religion, geographic/geologic/demographic features; memoir; gonzo ethnography and linguistics; American-Japanese cross-cultural pratfalls and anomalies.

Author : Steven G. Kellman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781612496016

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Nimble Tongues by Steven G. Kellman Pdf

Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims—if not accomplishment—to George Steiner’s Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyperreality. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.

Author : Victoria Young
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040029725

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Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature by Victoria Young Pdf

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and blind spots in the image that Japanese literature presents to the world, the author brings together a series of essays and works of fiction that are normally kept separate in distinct subgenres, such as Okinawan literature, zainichi literature written by ethnic Koreans, and other “trans-border” works. The act of translation is reimagined in figurative, expanded, and even disruptive ways with a focus on marginal spaces and trans-border movements. The result decentres the common image of Japanese literature while creating connections to wider questions of multilingualism, decolonisation, historical revisionism, and trauma that are so central to contemporary literary studies. This book will be of interest to all those who study modern Japan and Japanese literature, as well as those working in the wider field of translation studies, as it subjects the concept of world literature to searching analysis.

Author : Susan Leckey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135356323

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The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes by Susan Leckey Pdf

A complete guide to the major awards and prizes of the literary world. * An invaluable source of information on awards and prizes world-wide * Covers over 1,000 awards and prizes * Comprehensive background information on each award * Extensive contact details. Contents * Includes internationally awarded prizes along with prestigious national awards * Subject areas covered include adult and children's fiction, non-fiction, poetry, lifetime's achievement, translation and drama * Information is provided on the history of each award, its purpose, what is awarded, how often the prize is awarded, eligibility and restrictions, the awarding organization and the most recent recipients * Full contact details of the awarding organization are provided, including main contact name, postal address, e-mail and Internet address, telephone and fax numbers * Fully indexed by keyword, awarding organization and award by subject.

Author : Rachael Hutchinson,Leith Douglas Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317647713

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Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature by Rachael Hutchinson,Leith Douglas Morton Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. The Handbook examines various modes of literary production (such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays) as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated. Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a ‘person of letters’ and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas – not labelled a ‘novelist’ or ‘poet’, but a ‘writer’ who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. It represents a wide variety of critical approaches, giving the study a broad range of perspectives. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History.

Author : Scott J. Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : 9780810876156

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The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater by Scott J. Miller Pdf

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated into Japanese. The combination of the rich storytelling tradition of Japan with the realism and modernism of the West produced some of the greatest literature of the modern age. The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature-narrative, poetry, and drama-in modern Japan. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Japanese literature.

Author : Scott J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810863194

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater by Scott J. Miller Pdf

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated into Japanese. The combination of the rich storytelling tradition of Japan with the realism and modernism of the West produced some of the greatest literature of the modern age. Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature_narrative, poetry, and drama_in modern Japan. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Japanese literature.

Author : David G. Goodman,Masanori Miyazawa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0739101676

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Jews in the Japanese Mind by David G. Goodman,Masanori Miyazawa Pdf

Why are the Japanese fascinated with the Jews? By showing that the modern attitude is the result of a process of accretion begun 200 years ago, this book describes the development behind Japanese ideas of Jews and how these images are reflected in their modern intellectual life

Author : J. Scott Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538124420

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater by J. Scott Miller Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts.