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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 322
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-01-07
Förlag: Harvard University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf: 16 illus 5 photos
Illustrationer: 5 photos, 17 illus.
Dimensioner: 231 x 160 x 30 mm
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ISBN: 9780674244405

Flowering Tales

Name: Flowering Tales
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Author: Takeshi Watanabe
ISBN: 9780674244405

Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

av Takeshi Watanabe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020-01-07

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Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale, which covers about 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings in late Heian society, a golden age of court literature in womens hands. Takeshi Watanabe contends that the blossoming of tales, marked by the Tale of Genji, inspired Eigas new affective history: an exorcism of embittered spirits whose stories needed to be retold to ensure peace. Tracing the narrative arcs of politically marginalized figures, Watanabe shows how Eigas female authors adapted the discourse and strategies of the Tale of Genji to rechannel wayward ghosts into the community through genealogies that relied not on blood but on literary resonances. These reverberations, highlighted through comparisons to contemporaneous accounts in courtiers journals, echo through shared details of funerary practices, political life, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these eleventh-century voices to trouble conceptions of history: how it ought to be recounted, who got to record it, and why remembering mattered.

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SuperbThis study radiates an intense commitment to understanding Eiga on its own terms while at the same time striving to communicate its particular genius to an audience of a very different place and time[O]ne can say that Watanabe has succeeded brilliantly in creating an empathetic study of an affective history. -- Sonja Arntzen * Monumenta Nipponica * Superbly written, studded with thought-provoking analogies to contemporary social phenomena, this work illuminates Eiga as an original genre of affective history. * Choice * Careful and insightfulwe finally have a guidebook for navigatingand even appreciatingAkazome Emons impressive dedication to recording and structuring the world around herThrough meticulous readings and evocative imagery, Flowering Tales brings Emons world alive, and in revealing Eiga to be much more than the verbose musings of an undisciplined author, Watanabe enriches and complicates our understanding of Heian writings. -- Erin L. Brightwell * Journal of Japanese Studies *

Takeshi Watanabe is Assistant Professor at the College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University.