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Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Kirsten Cather

Editorial

University of California Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780520400269

Categorías

Japón
Literatura: historia y crítica
Estudios étnicos
Historia de asia

Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 (en Inglés)

Kirsten Cather (Autor) · University of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand, without careful attention to the words of the dead themselves. Drawing upon far-ranging creations by famous twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese artists and little-known amateurs alike--such as death poems, suicide notes, memorials, suicide maps and manuals, works of literature, photography, film, and manga--Kirsten Cather interrogates how suicide is scripted and to what end. Entering the orbit of suicidal writers and readers with care, she shows that through close readings these works can reveal fundamental beliefs about suicide and, just as crucially, about acts of writing. These are not scripts set in stone but graven images and words nonetheless that serve to mourn the dead, straddling two impulses: to put the dead to rest and to keep them alive forever. These words reach out to us to initiate a dialogue with the dead, one that can reveal why it matters to write into and from the void.