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Postmodernity and cross-culturalism
- Title
- Postmodernity and cross-culturalism / edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.
- Publication
- Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Press, ©2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
- Description
- 214 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of eleven essays with an introduction examines postmodernity, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in cross-culturalism. In the west, modernity, which flourished in the early decades of the twentieth century, is characterized by a synchronic and nonnarrative mode of thought and a manner of writing in opposition to mimetic realism. Whereas the text of modernity thrived on its rhythms, symbols, and representations of beauty, and above all on its impersonality, postmodernity in the late decades of the twentieth century sought relationships outside the text - those between literature and history, philosophy, psychology, society, and culture.
- The exploration of such relationships is literary to postmodernity as it is ancillary to modernity."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- No place I was meant to be: postmodern Japan in Haruki Murakami's fiction / Celeste Loughman -- Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe / Shoji Goto -- Richard Wright's Pagan Spain and cross-cultural discourse / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Rushdie's Midnight's children, meditation, and the postmodern conception of history / McKay Jenkins -- "Three meals a day and the fun of it": existential hunger and the Magnificent/Seven/Samurai / Shawn St. Jean -- On making things Korean: western drama and local tradition in Please turn off the lights / Jinhee Kim -- Linguistic conservatism, national identity, and the postcolonial Indian novel / Ajanta Dutt -- "Japan has become the sign": identity and history in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Nicole Cooley -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Emerson, Lacan, and Zen: transcendental and postmodern conceptions of the eastern subject / Robert Samuels -- North American versions of Haibun and postmodern American culture / Bruce Ross.
- ISBN
- 0838639089
- 9780838639085
- LCCN
- 2001033627
- OCLC
- ocm46884262
- 46884262
- SCSB-1244633
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library