Reading Against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel

By David Pollack

Book Overview

Reading against Culture starts from the problem that a concept of ?culture? is both destructive and necessary. Culture constitutes the environment within which self develops and interacts with other; as a closed environment of self-identity, however, culture inevitably implies alterity and exclusion. David Pollack proposes that only by reading ?against? culture--both by understanding how our involvement in it conditions our writing and reading, and by understanding how its inclusion of self entails the exclusion of other--can we begin to resist the hegemonic impulse inherent in reading across cultures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427525
• ISBN13: 9780801427527
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"