Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

AvChristopher Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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, author Christopher Smith demonstrates how different texts can use anachronism to open up history for a wide variety of different textual projects. From the modern period, this volume 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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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-11
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:9780472076871

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Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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Christopher Smith is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Florida.

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"[A] stimulating and ambitious study that brings long overdue attention to the ways anachronism structures Japanese literary and cultural expression."

Innehållsförteckning

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-denA Riot of Anachronism: History and power in Man’en gannen no futtobōru Resistance to MonologueDreaming in anachronism Chapter 3: Gags With An Agenda: Anachronism In Tezuka Osamu’s Hi No Tori Dismantling National Myth with AnachronismBenkei 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 JAnachronistic Interoperability of State Institutions in NarutoSamurai who read Shōnen Jump in GintamaHip-Hop and Anachronistic Marginality in Samurai chanpurūRiffs on Tradition: Interoperability in Visual ArtThe Severing of Tradition in the Works of Murakami TakashiDefiantly Appropriating the Past in the Paintings of Tenmyouya HisashiDisplacing the Samurai in the Works of Noguchi Tetsuya Chapter 5: Playing With Samurai: Anachronism In Edo Literature Ōmu-gaeshi bunbu no futamichiDaihi no senrokuhonNise Murasaki inaka Genji Chapter 6: Acting Out The Past: Anachronism In Edo Theatre Metadramatic anachronismAppropriating Samurai Heroes in Sukeroku yukari no Edo-zakuraThe mago-deshi of the Ancients: Sugawara denju tenarai kagamiSexy Heroes in Yoshitsune senbon zakura ConclusionBibliography