Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
Reihe: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
ISBN: 978-0-472-13096-2
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
Textures of Mourning is the first full-length manuscript in English to investigate these texts’ complex relationship across eras. By analyzing dozens of sumptuous images, the book pursues mortality’s progression over four sections—“Dying,” “Decomposing,” “Mourning,” and “Resurrecting”—each of which contextualizes factual and fictional accounts of reckoning with death to discern the mechanics of mourning’s labor. A major intervention of the book is to theorize how the riveting opacity, coarse materiality, and skewed temporality of premodern forms trouble modern regimes of looking, feeling, and knowing. Drawing upon scholarship in premodern Japanese literary studies, art history, and performance studies, the book’s innovative trans-disciplinary readings reorient psychoanalytic criticism and performance theory to map the fluctuating topography of calligraphic gestures.