Out of the Alleyway

Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction

Eve Zimmerman

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$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674026032

Publication Date: 01/31/2008

Short

275 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

17 halftones

Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard East Asian Monographs

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List of Figures
Introduction: Nothing but Words
Roots and Branches
Icarus Descending: Expendable Males and the Poetry of Nakagami Kenji
Brother-Sister Love and the Creation of Akiyiki
Knowing Pleasures: Sennen no yuraku, a Tale for Our Times
A Language of Kumano
Violent Histories: The Snake and the Shaman
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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