Lafcadio Hearn in international perspectives / edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirakawa, Sukehiro, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904--Criticism and interpretation.

Hearn, Lafcadio.

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904--Knowledge and learning--Japan.

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Criticism and interpretation.

Japan.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2007.

Summary:

'I am greatly intrigued by the widening gaps that exist between negative depreciations of Lafcadio Hearn in the United States and positive appreciations of Koizumi Yakumo in Japan. I would like to call the reader's attention to this significant difference as a symptom of much greater misapprehensions between the Western world and Japan. I have always been fascinated by problems of gaps in mutual perceptions, which often aggravate the love-hate relationship between the two parties concerned. I for one have taken up the case of Hearn, not only as a topic in the narrow framework of a history of literature, but also as a kind of study of intercultural relations. It is worth some attention if only for its interest to students of the morbid anatomy of cultural intercourse.'

Contents:

1 Lafcadio Hearn, a Reappraisal / Sukehiro Hirakawa 1

2 What Does His Greek Mother Mean to Hearn, the Japan Interpreter? / Sukehiro Hirakawa 16

3 Lafcadio's Nightmares / Sukehiro Hirakawa 30

4 Hearn and the Sea / Sukehiro Hirakawa 41

5 Hearn, Interpreter of the Animistic World of the Japanese / Sukehiro Hirakawa 55

6 Return to Japan or Return to the West? - Hearn's 'A Conservative' / Sukehiro Hirakawa 62

7 Half a Century after Byron - What Did Greece Mean to the Writer Hearn? / Sukehiro Hirakawa 77

8 Hearn As an American Writer / John Clubbe 93

9 Image of 'the Creole Mother' in Hearns Youma / Yoko Makino 103

10 From Folklore to Literature - Hearn and Japanese Legends of Tree Spirits / Yoko Makino 112

11 Hearn and 'Orpheus' - His Art of Retelling Stories of Old Japan / Yoko Makino 120

12 Lafcadio Hearn and Yanagita Kunio: Who Initiated Folklore Studies in Japan? / Yoko Makino 129

13 Insect-music: Hearn's Orphean Song / Hitomi Nabae 139

14 Hearn's Romantic Representation of Shinto, the Way of Japanese Gods / Masaru Toda 152

15 Two Springs: Hearn's and Kyoka's Other Worlds / Cody Poulton 159

16 'Weird Beauty': Angela Carter and Lafcadio Hearn in Japan / Susan Fisher 169

17 Hearn and the Muse / Ted Goossen 178

18 'The Real Birthday of New Japan' - Lafcadio Hearn's 'After the War' / Peter McIvor 185

19 The Image of the Mother in the Work of Hearn / George Hughes 194

20 Hearn: Travel-writing and Controversy / George Hughes 205

21 Robert Nichols and Lafcadio Hearn: Cultural Politics and English Professors at the University of Tokyo / George Hughes 217

22 The Enduring Value of Lafcadio Hearn's Tokyo Lectures / Joan Blythe 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.

ISBN:

1905246269

9781905246267

OCLC:

74969333