Narratives of agency self-making in China, India, and Japan

This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency-defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dissanayake, Wimal (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press c1996.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798132706719
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  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Agency and Cultural Understanding: Some Preliminary Remarks; 1 Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West; 2 Samsara: Self and the Crisis of Visual Narrative; 3 Visual Agency and Ideological Fantasy in Three Films by Zhang Yimou; 4 Contesting and Contested Identities: Mathura's Chaubes; 5 Self-Made; 6 Defining the Self in Indian Literary and Filmic Texts; 7 Selves and Others in Japanese Culture in Historical Perspective; 8 Self, Agency, and Cultural Knowledge: Reflections on Three Japanese Films
  • 9 The Nail That Came Out All the Way: Hayashi Takeshi's Case against the Regulation of the Japanese Student BodyContributors; Index