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Item specifics
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- Type
- Paperback
- Publication Name
- Duke University Press Books
- ISBN-10
- 0822325187
- ISBN
- 9780822325185
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822325187
ISBN-13
9780822325185
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1622459
Product Key Features
Book Title
Uncovering Heian Japan : an Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Archaeology, Asian / Japanese, Poetry
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Book Series
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
99-049889
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Thomas LaMarre has written a fascinating archaeology of how the national imagination of modern Japan has colonized ancient scriptures of the archipelago to fabricate a glorious lineage and cultural ancestry for itself. Uncovering Heian Japan also recovers the rich prehistory of cosmopolitan poetic exchanges between the archipelago and the Middle Kingdom that is foreclosed by state-sanctioned cultural histories of both modern Japan and China."--Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley, "'The line,' wrote William James, 'is the relation.' In a study of stunning originality, Thomas Lamarre gives us the brushwork line, the line of poetic gesture-and through it, the relation between nation and sensation. Uncovering Heian Japan combines an exquisitely researched archeology of Japanese writing with far-ranging reflections on race, nation, and collective expression. A major contribution not only to Japanese studies, but to the interdisciplinary realm of cultural theory as a whole."-Brian Massumi, State University of New York at Albany, "Thomas LaMarre has written a fascinating archaeology of how the national imagination of modern Japan has colonized ancient scriptures of the archipelago to fabricate a glorious lineage and cultural ancestry for itself. Uncovering Heian Japan also recovers the rich prehistory of cosmopolitan poetic exchanges between the archipelago and the Middle Kingdom that is foreclosed by state-sanctioned cultural histories of both modern Japan and China."-Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley, "A vivid reading of Heian court poetry that removes the interpretive screen later imposed in the name of national identity and modernity to reveal a richly expressive world. Here calligraphy, composition, and community combine in a 'song machine' that links poetics and politics and seeks, quite literarily, to calibrate the cosmos. After this book the poetry of 'old Japan' will never be the same."-Carol Gluck, Columbia University, “‘The line,’ wrote William James, ‘is the relation.’ In a study of stunning originality, Thomas Lamarre gives us the brushwork line, the line of poetic gesture-and through it, the relation between nation and sensation. Uncovering Heian Japan combines an exquisitely researched archeology of Japanese writing with far-ranging reflections on race, nation, and collective expression. A major contribution not only to Japanese studies, but to the interdisciplinary realm of cultural theory as a whole.�-Brian Massumi, State University of New York at Albany, "'The line,' wrote William James, 'is the relation.' In a study of stunning originality, Thomas Lamarre gives us the brushwork line, the line of poetic gesture--and through it, the relation between nation and sensation. Uncovering Heian Japan combines an exquisitely researched archeology of Japanese writing with far-ranging reflections on race, nation, and collective expression. A major contribution not only to Japanese studies, but to the interdisciplinary realm of cultural theory as a whole."--Brian Massumi, State University of New York at Albany, [*Note: Expecting blurb from NRB Pheng Cheah by 12/1/99.] "A vivid reading of Heian court poetry that removes the interpretative screen later imposed in the name of national identity and modernity to reveal a richly expressive world. Here calligraphy, composition, and community combine in a 'song machine' that links poetics and politics and seeks, quite literally, to calibrate the cosmos. After this book the poetry of 'old Japan' will never be the same."--Carol Gluck, Columbia University Uncovering Heian Japan by Thomas Lamarre >won the 2002 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Northeast Asia >Council of the Association for Asian Studies., "A vivid reading of Heian court poetry that removes the interpretive screen later imposed in the name of national identity and modernity to reveal a richly expressive world. Here calligraphy, composition, and community combine in a 'song machine' that links poetics and politics and seeks, quite literarily, to calibrate the cosmos. After this book the poetry of 'old Japan' will never be the same."--Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Dewey Decimal
895.6/11409
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Illustrations ix Introduction: Unstating Heian Japan 1 Part One. The Interpretation of Rebuses 1. Revising the Rebus 13 2. Kana Inscription and Stylistic Differentiation 26 3. Composition and Competition 50 Part Two. Inscription and Sensation 4. Toward a History of Styles 77 5. Heian Calligraphy 93 6. The Multisensible FIgure: Ashide Shita-e Wakanroeisho 116 Part Three. The Song Machine 7. Two Prefaces, Two Modes of APpearance 143 8. Tsurayuki's Song Machine 161 Notes 189 Works Consulted 207 lIllustrations 217 Index 229
Synopsis
Literary criticism of classical Japanese poetry, focusing on the emergence of Kokinwakashu,' an imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled in the 9th century.", The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure "Japaneseness" has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during periods of western colonial expansion and cultural encroachment. But Thomas LaMarre argues in Uncovering Heian Japan that this need for a cultural unity--a singular Japanese identity--has resulted in an overemphasis of a relatively minor aspect of Heian poetry, obscuring not only its other significant elements but also the porousness of Heian society and the politics of poetic expression. Combining a pathbreaking visual analysis of the calligraphy with which this poetry was transcribed, a more traditional textual analysis, and a review of the politics of the period, LaMarre presents a dramatically new view of Heian poetry and culture. He challenges the assumption of a cohesive "national imagination," seeing instead an early Japan that is ethnically diverse, territorially porous, and indifferent to linguistic boundaries. Working through the problems posed by institutionalized notions of nationalism, nativism, and modernism, LaMarre rethinks the theories of scholars such as Suzuki Hideo, Yoshimoto Takaaki, and Komatsu Shigemi, in conjunction with theorists such as Derrida, Karatani, Foucault, and Deleuze. Contesting the notion that speech is central to the formation of community, Uncovering Heian Japan focuses instead on the potential centrality of the more figural operations of poetic practice. Specialists in Japanese history and culture as well as scholars working in other areas of cultural criticism will find that this book enriches their understanding of an early Japan that has exerted so much influence on later concepts of what it means to be Japanese.
LC Classification Number
DS822.L36 2000
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