Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative

by James A. Fujii

Book Overview

In Complicit Fictions, James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. He employs current Western literary-critical theory to reveal the social and political contest inherent in modern Japanese literature and also confronts recent breakthroughs in literary studies coming out of Japan. The result is a major work that explicitly questions the eurocentric dimensions of our conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077709
• ISBN13: 9780520077706
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"