Flowering Tales
«Careful and insightful…we finally have a guidebook for navigating—and even appreciating—Akazome Emon’s impressive dedication to recording and structuring the world around her…Through meticulous readings and evocative imagery, Flowering Tales brings Emon’s world alive, and in revealing Eiga to be much more than the verbose musings of an undisciplined author, Watanabe enriches and complicates our understanding of Heian writings.»
Erin L. Brightwell, Journal of Japanese Studies
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Les mer
Tracing the narrative arcs of politically marginalized figures, Watanabe shows how Eiga's female authors adapted the discourse and strategies of the Tale of Genji to rechannel wayward ghosts into the community through genealogies that relied not on blood but on literary resonances. These reverberations, highlighted through comparisons to contemporaneous accounts in courtiers' journals, echo through shared details of funerary practices, political life, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these eleventh-century voices to trouble conceptions of history: how it ought to be recounted, who got to record it, and why remembering mattered.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Harvard University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780674244405
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Careful and insightful…we finally have a guidebook for navigating—and even appreciating—Akazome Emon’s impressive dedication to recording and structuring the world around her…Through meticulous readings and evocative imagery, Flowering Tales brings Emon’s world alive, and in revealing Eiga to be much more than the verbose musings of an undisciplined author, Watanabe enriches and complicates our understanding of Heian writings.»
Erin L. Brightwell, Journal of Japanese Studies
«Superb…This study radiates an intense commitment to understanding Eiga on its own terms while at the same time striving to communicate its particular genius to an audience of a very different place and time…[O]ne can say that Watanabe has succeeded brilliantly in creating an empathetic study of an ‘affective history.’»
Sonja Arntzen, Monumenta Nipponica
«Superbly written, studded with thought-provoking analogies to contemporary social phenomena, this work illuminates Eiga as an original genre of ‘affective history.’»
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