{"product_id":"nakagami-japan","title":"Nakagami, Japan","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anne McKnight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616422584700,"sku":"9780816672851","price":62.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780816672851_e747a38c-6196-428a-ac7c-d21484a25dc5.jpg?v=1726477950","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/nakagami-japan","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}