UID:
almahu_9949861133902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520400276
Serie:
New Interventions in Japanese Studies ; v.5
Inhalt:
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 writers 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.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Lilienthal Imprint -- Subvention -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Names, Romanization, and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thoughts at the Precipice -- Part One. Mapping Suicide: Jisatsu Meisho, the Poetic Places of Suicide -- 2. Mount Mihara's Same-Sex Suicides and Flippant Flips -- 3. Suicide Maps and Manuals -- 4. Aokigahara Jukai, Sea of Trees -- Part Two. Noting Suicide: Isho, the Writings Left Behind -- 5. A Note to an Old Friend, or Two -- 6. A Note for Oneself -- 7. A Note to the Nation -- 8. Autothanatography, or the Exorbitant Call to Write One's Own Death -- Part Three. Mourning in Multimedia -- 9. Copycat Poets and Suicides -- 10. Death in Mixed Media -- Epilogue: Dialoguing with the Dead -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520400269
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1525/9780520400276
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