Between the Eagle and the Sun : Traces of Japan / Ihab Hassan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassan, Ihab Habib, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Japan--Biography.

East and West.

Japan--Ethnic relations.

Japan--Civilization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1996.

Summary:

A fascinating memoir by Egypt-born American literary theorist and writer Ihab Hassan about his life in Japan. Part recollection, part cultural perception, Between the Eagle and the Sun records his journey, living and seeing himself sometimes as another, assaying always to read the hieroglyphs of his past in the scripts of Japan.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: Previews; Appearances; Iwao Iwamoto; Bewilderments: 1974; Suki; Part II: Through the Literary Glass; Texts and Conceits; Kojin Karatani; Part III: ""Them""; Primary Differences (Space, Time, People); Seiji Tsutsumi (Takashi Tsujii); Exceptionalism; Shuichi Kato; Stereotypes and Paradoxes (Coolness, Courtesy, Conformity); Kiyomi and Kumiko Mikuni; Internationalism or Change?; Lady in a Large Hat: An Imaginary Portrait; Part IV: Education; Hiroko Washizu; The Quest for Transcultural Values; Makoto Ooka; Part V: Entries, A to Z

Japanese Culture: A Personal DictionaryDonald Richie; Part VI: Envoy; Between the Eagle and the Sun?; Mariko Shimizu; Amor Loci?

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ISBN:

0-8173-8891-5

OCLC:

604915035