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Zusatztext "Abel takes a more micro approach, with many detailed examples of the way specific texts were censored... [He] addresses several kinds of texts: literary manuscripts, bibliographies, censors' archives, and essays." Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Abel is Assistant Professor In the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State University Klappentext " Redacted is a major work of original scholarship and a signal critical accomplishment. With impressive daring and persistence! Jonathan Abel has investigated rarely used archives to open a body of materials virtually unknown to English-language readers. This is a stunning achievement! and it is sure to change the landscape of Japanese literary studies." - Marilyn Ivy! author of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity! Phantasm! Japan "A masterful blending of incisive! close textual analysis! subtle situating of literary texts in their historical moments! attention to the very materiality of book culture! Redacted is a truly original thinking about how literature is formed and malformed! written! received! and read! under the pressure of censorship. It does nothing less than reveal a complex but hidden history of modern Japanese literature. A thrilling example of literary historical scholarship that combines the palpable excitement of archival work and the elucidating intensity of close reading." - Alan Tansman! author of The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism Zusammenfassung At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, and more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced. This study examines the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Translation Introduction: Archiving Censors Part I. Preservation 1. The Censor's Archives and Beyond 2. Indices of Censorship 3. Essaying the Censors Part II. Production 4. Seditious Obscenities 5. Literary Casualties of War Part III. Redaction 6. Epigraphs 7. Redactionary Literature 8. Beyond X 9. Unnaming and the Language of Slaves Coda 10. Redaction Countertime Notes Bibliography Index ...
