Faulkner and Oe : the self-critical imagination
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Faulkner and Oe : the self-critical imagination
University Press of America, c2007
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
For Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese novelist who won the 1994 Noble prize in literature, William Faulkner is not so much a father of Yoknapatawpha as he is a critic of the masculine possessiveness attributed to the creation of the imaginary county. Faulkner and Oe: The Self-Critical Imagination focuses on the Faulknerian influence on Oe's satirical or self-critical imagination-especially on his feminist or hermaphroditic criticism of the male "I" contained within the shosetsu (novel). Akio Kimura expertly investigates Oe's feminist turn in his novels in the 1980s as a criticism of this "I" as an authoritarian first-person narrator. Oe considers this concept to be a disruptive reflection of Japanese society's established order. Oe's response to such a disruption is the introduction of a series of metaphors utilized in order to represent Faulkner's individualism and the subsequent deconstruction of Japanese autocracy. Drawing on Kofman, Irigaray, and Derrida, this book explores how Faulkner's individualism inspires Oe to juxtapose the Japanese authoritarian and the Faulknerian self-critical. Kimura explains that Oe's intensive reading of Faulkner's later novels-The Town, The Mansion, A Fable-has brought him a sense of ambiguity, or his awareness of being split between the Japanese "I" and the Western "I." By comparing these two significant novelists, this study acutely highlights the generic difference between the novel of the West and the Japanese shosetsu.
目次
Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 A Yoknapatawpha of Oe's Own Chapter 5 The Feminine Chapter 6 The "Problems of the Spirit" / the "Matters of the Soul" Chapter 7 Oe's "I" and Faulkner's "is" Part 8 Bibliography Part 9 Index Part 10 About the Author
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