{"product_id":"figures-of-resistance-language-poetry-and-narrating-in-the-tale-of-the-genji-and-other-mid-heian-texts-9780822311928","title":"Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts","description":"In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji.\u003c\/i\u003e Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to suggest that this universalist discourse, which silences the feminine aspects of these texts and subsumes their writing in misapplied Western canonical literary terms, is sanctioned and maintained by the discipline of Japanese literature.\u003cbr\u003eOkada develops a highly original and sophisticated reading strategy that demonstrates how readers might understand texts belonging to a different time and place without being complicit in their assimilation to categories derived from Western literary traditions. The author's reading stratgey is based on the texts' own resistance to modes of analysis that employ such Western canonical terms as novel, lyric, and third-person narrative. Emphasis is also given to the distinctive cultural circles, as well as socio-political and genealogical circumstances that surrounded the emergence of the texts.\u003cbr\u003eIndispensable readings for specialists in literature, cultural studies, and Japanese literature and history, \u003ci\u003eFigures of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e will also appeal to general readers interested in the problems and complexities of studying another culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard H. Okada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.12w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822311928","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198551371891,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_daf13164-af0c-4b55-9215-1cb0d60049a6.jpg?v=1656078536","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/figures-of-resistance-language-poetry-and-narrating-in-the-tale-of-the-genji-and-other-mid-heian-texts-9780822311928","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}