ISBN:
0816626561
,
081662657X
,
9780816626571
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 244 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Narratives of Agency : Self-Making in China, India, and Japan
DDC:
302.54095
Keywords:
Individuality
;
Self
;
Subjectivity
;
China ; Civilization
;
India ; Civilization
;
Individuality
;
Japan ; Civilization
;
Self
;
Subjectivity
;
Electronic books
;
Japan Civilization
;
China Civilization
;
India Civilization
Abstract:
This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency-defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan. In Narratives of Agency, scholars from a variety of disciplines argue that traditional Western approaches to the study of these cultures have unduly focused on the pervasive influence of
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Agency and Cultural Understanding: Some Preliminary Remarks; 1 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West; 2 Samsara: Self and the Crisis of Visual Narrative; 3 Visual Agency and Ideological Fantasy in Three Films by Zhang Yimou; 4 Contesting and Contested Identities: Mathura's Chaubes; 5 Self-Made; 6 Defining the Self in Indian Literary and Filmic Texts; 7 Selves and Others in Japanese Culture in Historical Perspective; 8 Self, Agency, and Cultural Knowledge: Reflections on Three Japanese Films
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The Nail That Came Out All the Way: Hayashi Takeshi's Case against the Regulation of the Japanese Student BodyContributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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