Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 by Cather, Kirsten
Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 by Cather, Kirsten

Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5

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Author: Kirsten Cather
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Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 by Cather, Kirsten

Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5

$131.93
Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5 by Cather, Kirsten

Scripting Suicide in Japan: Volume 5

$131.93
Author: Kirsten Cather
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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 writers 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.


Author: Kirsten Cather
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780520400269

About the Author
Kirsten Cather is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan.
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