ISBN:
9780472904518
,
0472904515
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Smith, Christopher Samurai with telephones
DDC:
895.609
Keywords:
Japanese literature History and criticism
;
Errors and blunders, Literary
;
Japanese wit and humor
;
Littérature japonaise - Histoire et critique
;
Erreurs et bévues littéraires
;
Humour japonais
;
HISTORY / General
Abstract:
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to new possibilities. By applying this theoretical framework of anachronism to several Japanese literary and cultural works, the book demonstrates how different texts can use anachronism to open up history for a wide variety of different textual projects. From the modern period, author Christopher Smith examines literature by Mori OÌ⁴gai and OÌ⁴e KenzaburoÌ⁴, manga by Tezuka Osamu, art by Murakami Takashi, and a variety of other pop cultural works. Turning to the Early Modern period (Edo period, 1600-1868), which produced a literature rich with playful anachronism, he also examines several Kabuki and Bunraku plays, kibyoÌ⁴shi comic books, and goÌ⁴kan illustrated novels. In analyzing these works, he draws a distinction between anachronisms that attempt to hide their work on history and convincingly rewrite it and those conspicuous anachronisms that highlight and disrupt the construction of historical narratives
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index
