Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 88) - Softcover

Bridges, William H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472054422 ISBN 13: 9780472054428

Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2020

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"Playing in the Shadows explores the body of literature arising from post-World War II Japanese authors' robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African Americana. Rather than solely focusing on representations of African Americans in Japanese literature, this manuscript argues that the black characters who rise to the textual surface are just the tip of the signifying iceberg. Beneath those representations -- or, as Professor Bridges argues, even in the absence of overt representations of black characters, there runs a rich history of Afro-Japanese literary and cultural exchange, as well as a history characterized by cross-cultural-pollination and creative experimentation that spans the Pacific. By tracing how blackness is written in and into Japanese literature, this book argues that fictions of race provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies: in bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself"--

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Will Bridges is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472054422
• ISBN 13: 9780472054428
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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