Scripting Suicide in Japan

Scripting Suicide in Japan

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cather, Kirsten (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Series:New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Subjects:
Authors, Japanese > Suicidal behavior > 20th century.
Authors, Japanese > Suicidal behavior > 21st century.
Suicide and literature > Japan > 20th century.
Suicide and literature > Japan > 21st century.
Suicide in literature.
Suicide > Social aspects > Japan > 20th century.
Suicide > Social aspects > Japan > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842734406719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Lilienthal Imprint
  • Subvention
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Note on Names, Romanization, and Translation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Thoughts at the Precipice
  • Part One. Mapping Suicide: Jisatsu Meisho, the Poetic Places of Suicide
  • 2. Mount Mihara's Same-Sex Suicides and Flippant Flips
  • 3. Suicide Maps and Manuals
  • 4. Aokigahara Jukai, Sea of Trees
  • Part Two. Noting Suicide: Isho, the Writings Left Behind
  • 5. A Note to an Old Friend, or Two
  • 6. A Note for Oneself
  • 7. A Note to the Nation
  • 8. Autothanatography, or the Exorbitant Call to Write One's Own Death
  • Part Three. Mourning in Multimedia
  • 9. Copycat Poets and Suicides
  • 10. Death in Mixed Media
  • Epilogue: Dialoguing with the Dead
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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