{"product_id":"navigating-narratives-gustav-heldt-9780674295827","title":"Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction","description":"Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eNavigating Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e offers unique insights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of its most enigmatic and consequential texts. Named after the province once governed by its creator, Ki no Tsurayuki (d. 946), \u003ci\u003eTosa nikki\u003c\/i\u003e (The Tosa Diary) purports to be the record of a voyage kept by an anonymous woman in the entourage of an ex-governor returning to the capital. This split between fictional narrator and historical author has usually led readers to place the diary in narratives privileging one of those two figures, with the result that \u003ci\u003eTosa nikki\u003c\/i\u003e has been valued primarily as either the first Heian woman's memoir or the last aesthetic manifesto of a man whose writings shaped the Japanese poetic tradition for centuries afterward. \u003ci\u003eNavigating Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to steer away from the anachronistic assumptions and author-centric readings informing these accounts. By focusing instead on the diary's reception as a parody by its earliest readers, Heldt argues that it merits attention for the discursive practices, representational conventions, and non-elite social contexts it illuminates as the world's first short novelistic work of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gustav Heldt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067429582X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674295827\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 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Gustav Heldt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46546089705727,"sku":"9780674295827","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebcc2f01-f384-4d38-b0ac-77bb47e55460.jpg?v=1738184100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navigating-narratives-gustav-heldt-9780674295827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}