{"product_id":"itineraries-of-power-terry-kawashima-9780674970526","title":"Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eMovements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local and global power relationships. But what of more literary moves: textual techniques such as distinct patterns of narrative flow, abrupt leaps between genres, and poetic figures that flatten geographical distance? This book examines what happens when both types of tropes--literal traversals and literary shifts--coexist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eItineraries of Power\u003c\/i\u003e examines prose narratives and poetry of the mid-Heian to medieval eras (900-1400) that conspicuously feature tropes of movement. Kawashima argues that the appearance of a character's physical motion, alongside literary techniques identified with motion, is a textual signpost in a story, urging readers to focus on how the work conceptualizes relations of power and claims to authority. From the gendered intersection of register shifts in narrative and physical displacement in the Heian period, to a dizzying tale of travel retold multiple times in a single medieval text, the motion in these works gestures toward internal conflicts and alternatives to existing structures of power. The book concludes that texts crucially concerned with such tropes of movement suggest that power is always simultaneously manufactured and dismantled from within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Terry Kawashima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674970527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674970526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2017","brand":"Terry Kawashima","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086762422527,"sku":"9780674970526","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b88abc9c-9512-4542-bf9f-26e7ac3fe0b6.jpg?v=1769096429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/itineraries-of-power-terry-kawashima-9780674970526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}