Figures of Resistance - Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

"Figures of Resistance" is not simply the best English-language study of Heian prose texts now available, but also one of the two or three most important studies of Japanese literature ever written. It will become not so much the 'standard' . . . as the critical point of departure in the field of Japanese narrative studies for years to come." --Edward Fowler, University of California, Irvine

About the author

H. Richard Okada

Summary

This study of literature from Japan's mid-Heian period offers new readings of three traditional tales and contends that the cultural significance of these works has been distorted by translations belonging to the patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilizations.

Product details

• Authors: OKADA, H. Richard Okada, Richard H Okada, Richard H. Okada
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.1991
• EAN: 9780822311850
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1185-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Studies of the Harriman Instit; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Studies of the Harriman Instit; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies