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Scripting suicide in Japan /

Cather, Kirsten.

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Scripting suicide in Japan /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Scripting suicide in Japan // Kirsten Cather.
Author:	Cather, Kirsten.
Published:	Oakland, Calif. :University of California Press, : c2024.,
Description:	xv, 329 p. :ill. (chiefly col.) ;23 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Thoughts at the precipice : Fujimura Misao at Kegon falls -- Mount Mihara's same-sex suicides and flippant flips -- Mapping suicide -- Aokigahara Jukai, sea of trees -- Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, a note to an old friend, or two (1892-1927) -- Kishigami Daisaku, a note for oneself (1939-1960) -- Tsuburaya Kōkichi, a note to the nation (1940-1968) -- Autothanatography, or the exorbitant call to write one's own death : Etō Jun (1932-1999) and Yamada Hanako (1964-1992) -- Nagasawa Nobuko and Haraguchi Tōzō : copycat suicides and poets -- Mishima Yukio : death in mixed media -- Epilogue : dialoguing with the dead.
Subject:	Suicide in literature. -
ISBN:	9780520400269

Scripting suicide in Japan /
Cather, Kirsten.

Scripting suicide in Japan /Kirsten Cather. - Oakland, Calif. :University of California Press,c2024. - xv, 329 p. :ill. (chiefly col.) ;23 cm. - New interventions in Japanese studies ;5.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.

Thoughts at the precipice : Fujimura Misao at Kegon falls -- Mount Mihara's same-sex suicides and flippant flips -- Mapping suicide -- Aokigahara Jukai, sea of trees -- Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, a note to an old friend, or two (1892-1927) -- Kishigami Daisaku, a note for oneself (1939-1960) -- Tsuburaya Kōkichi, a note to the nation (1940-1968) -- Autothanatography, or the exorbitant call to write one's own death : Etō Jun (1932-1999) and Yamada Hanako (1964-1992) -- Nagasawa Nobuko and Haraguchi Tōzō : copycat suicides and poets -- Mishima Yukio : death in mixed media -- Epilogue : dialoguing with the dead.

"Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand, without careful attention to the words of the dead themselves. Drawing upon far-ranging creations by famous twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese artists and little-known amateurs alike-such as death poems, suicide notes, memorials, suicide maps and manuals, works of literature, photography, film, and manga-Kirsten Cather interrogates how suicide is scripted and to what end. Entering the orbit of suicidal writers and readers with care, she shows that through close readings these works can reveal fundamental beliefs about suicide and, just as crucially, about acts of writing. These are not scripts set in stone but graven images and words nonetheless that serve to mourn the dead, straddling two impulses: to put the dead to rest and to keep them alive forever. These words reach out to us to initiate a dialogue with the dead, one that can reveal why it matters to write into and from the void"--

ISBN: 9780520400269US44.99

LCCN: 2024005152Subjects--Topical Terms:

696856
Suicide in literature.

LC Class. No.: PL721.S76 / C38 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 895.6

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