{"product_id":"nakagami-japan-buraku-and-the-writing-of-ethnicity-paperback","title":"Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne McKnight\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992), who counted himself among the \u003ci\u003eburaku-min\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan's largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical traditions of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e writing into the high culture of Japanese literature for the first time and helped establish him as the most canonical writer born in postwar Japan.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNakagami\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan, Anne McKnight shows how the writer's exploration of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e led to a unique blend of fiction and ethnography--which amounted to nothing less than a reimagining of modern Japanese literature. McKnight develops a parallax view of Nakagami's achievement, allowing us to see him much as he saw himself, as a writer whose accomplishments traversed both \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e literary arts and high literary culture in Japan. \u003cbr\u003eAs she considers the ways in which Nakagami and other twentieth-century writers used ethnography to shape Japanese literature, McKnight reveals how ideas about language also imagined a transfigured relation to mainstream culture and politics. Her analysis of the resulting \"rhetorical activism\" lays bare Nakagami's unique blending of literature and ethnography within the context of twentieth-century ideas about race, ethnicity, and citizenship--in Japan, but also on an international scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne McKnight is assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301272019251,"sku":"9780816672868","price":57.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/D8ZBlO_DFR9780816672868.webp?v=1777508078","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/nakagami-japan-buraku-and-the-writing-of-ethnicity-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}