{"product_id":"nakagami-japan-anne-mcknight-9780816672868","title":"Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity","description":"How do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992), who counted himself among the \u003ci\u003eburaku-min\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan's largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical traditions of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e writing into the high culture of Japanese literature for the first time and helped establish him as the most canonical writer born in postwar Japan.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNakagami\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan, Anne McKnight shows how the writer's exploration of \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e led to a unique blend of fiction and ethnography--which amounted to nothing less than a reimagining of modern Japanese literature. McKnight develops a parallax view of Nakagami's achievement, allowing us to see him much as he saw himself, as a writer whose accomplishments traversed both \u003ci\u003eburaku\u003c\/i\u003e literary arts and high literary culture in Japan. \u003cbr\u003eAs she considers the ways in which Nakagami and other twentieth-century writers used ethnography to shape Japanese literature, McKnight reveals how ideas about language also imagined a transfigured relation to mainstream culture and politics. Her analysis of the resulting \"rhetorical activism\" lays bare Nakagami's unique blending of literature and ethnography within the context of twentieth-century ideas about race, ethnicity, and citizenship--in Japan, but also on an international scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne McKnight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816672865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816672868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 182","brand":"Anne McKnight","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443713192191,"sku":"9780816672868","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3de4f126-a824-4ec2-921f-bfa700cb7948.jpg?v=1777207322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nakagami-japan-anne-mcknight-9780816672868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}