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"How can the 'voiceless' voice be represented? This primary question underpins lshikawa's analysis of selected work by Buraku writer, Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992). In spite of his Buraku background, Nakagami' s privilege as a writer made it difficult for him to "hear" and "represent" those voices silenced by mainstream social structures in Japan. This "paradox of representing the silenced voice" is the key theme of the book. Gayatri Spivak theorises the (im)possibility of representing the voice of "subalterns," those oppressed by imperialism, patriarchy and heteronomativity. Arguing for Burakumin as Japan's "subalterns," Ishikawa draws on Spivak to analyse Nakagami' s texts. The first half of the book revisits the theme of the transgressive Burakumin man. This section includes analysis of a seldom discussed narrative of a violent man and his silenced wife. The second half of the book focuses on the rarely heard voices of Burakumin women from the Kiyuki trilogy. Satoko, the prostitute, unknowingly commits incest with her half-brother, Akiyuki. The aged Yuki sacrifices her youth in a brothel to feed her fatherless family. The mute Moyo remains traumatized by rape. lshikawa' s close reading of Nakagami's representation of the silenced voices of these sexually stigmatized women is this book's unique contribution to Nakagami scholarship"--

Buraku people in literature. --- Nakagami, Kenji --- Criticism and interpretation.

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A collection of stories on Japan's burakumin, former slaves considered tainted by impure blood. In Red Hair, a man picks up a woman hitchhiker who turns out to be a nymphomaniac, while the title story is on incest.

J5933 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose by individual authors (1868- ) --- Nakagami, Kenji --- Nakkagami, Kenji --- Nakagami, K. --- Nakaue, Kenji --- 中上健次 --- Translations into English. --- Translations into English --- Nakagami, Kenji. --- Nakkagami, Kenji, --- Nakaue, Kenji, --- 中上健次, --- Nakagami, Kenji - Translations into English --- Kenji, Nakagami

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How do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992), who counted himself among the buraku-min, Japan's largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical traditions of buraku writing into the high culture of Japanese literature for the first time and helped establish him as the most canonical writer born in postwar Japan. In Nakagami, Japan, Anne McKnight shows how the writer's exploration of buraku led to a unique blend of fiction and ethnography--which amounted to nothing less than a reimagining of modern Japanese literature. McKnight develops a parallax view of Nakagami's achievement, allowing us to see him much as he saw himself, as a writer whose accomplishments traversed both buraku literary arts and high literary culture in Japan. As she considers the ways in which Nakagami and other twentieth-century writers used ethnography to shape Japanese literature, McKnight reveals how ideas about language also imagined a transfigured relation to mainstream culture and politics. Her analysis of the resulting "rhetorical activism" lays bare Nakagami's unique blending of literature and ethnography within the context of twentieth-century ideas about race, ethnicity, and citizenship--in Japan, but also on an international scale.

Buraku people in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature --- Nakagami, Kenji --- Nakkagami, Kenji, --- Nakagami, K. --- Nakaue, Kenji, --- 中上健次, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- J5931 --- J4203 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- outcasts, burakumin, hinin --- Kenji, Nakagami --- Nakkagami, Kenji --- Nakaue, Kenji --- 中上健次