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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism
Author Ama, Michihiro (著)
Date2021.02
Pages354
PublisherSUNY Press
Publisher Url https://sunypress.edu/
LocationAlbany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteMichihiro Ama is Karashima Tsukasa Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana. He is the author of Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898–1941.
KeywordJapanese Studies; Literary Criticism; Asian Studies; Buddhism
AbstractThe Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern Buddhism, which Michihiro Ama presents both as existing in continuity with the historical Buddhist tradition and as having unique features of its own. Ama corrects the dominant perception in which the Christian practice of confession has been accepted as the primary informing source of modern Japanese prose literature, arguing instead that the practice has always been a part of Shin Buddhist culture. Focusing on personal fiction, this volume explores the works of literary figures and Buddhist priests who, challenged by the modern development of Japan, turned to Buddhism in a variety of ways and used literature as a vehicle for transforming their sense of selfhood. Writers discussed include Natsume Sōseki, Tayama Katai, Shiga Naoya, Kiyozawa Manshi, and Akegarasu Haya. By bringing Buddhism out of the shadows of early twentieth-century Japanese literature and elucidating its presence in both individual authors' lives and the genre of autobiographical fiction, The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction demonstrates a more nuanced understanding of the role of Buddhism in the development of Japanese modernity.
Table of contentsAcknowledgments
Notes about Japanese Names
Introduction
1. A Disciplinary Divide and the Conceptual Framework of the Present Study
Part I: Writing Personal Fiction as a Confessional and Religious Practice
2. Modern Japanese Writers as Lay Buddhist Practitioners
3. Ari no mama as Literary and Buddhist Discourse
4. Shin Buddhist Confession and Literary Practice
5. A Shin Buddhist Historical Novel
Part II: The Buddhist Reading of Personal Fiction
6. Buddhist Words and Buddhist Symbols in Personal Novels
7. Buddhist Attainment and Mystical Experience
8. Literary Representations of Buddhist Funerals
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Translation of the Preface to Before and after My Rebirth by Akegarasu Haya
Appendix 2: Translation of the Preface to Guardians of the Dharma Castle by Matsuoka Yuzuru
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9781438481418 (hc); 9781438481425 (pbk)
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