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Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction
Eve Zimmerman
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Hardback. The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economy. This book is a study of Nakagami's life and oeuvre delving into the writer's literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami worked. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584.
The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Drawing upon the lives, experiences, and languages of the burakumin, the outcaste communities long discriminated against in Japanese society as a defiled underclass, Nakagami's works of fiction and nonfiction record with vitality and violence the realities—actual and imagined—of buraku culture.
In this critical study of Nakagami's life and oeuvre, Eve Zimmerman delves into the writer's literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674026032
SKU
V9780674026032
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About Eve Zimmerman
Eve Zimmerman is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, Wellesley College.
Reviews for Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction
Zimmerman succeeds in bringing [Nakagami's] literature to life.
T. S. Yamada
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