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Touching the unreachable : writing, skinship, modern Japan / Fusako Innami,
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Innami, Fusako, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 91.
- Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; number 91
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Touch in literature.
- Skin in literature.
- Popular culture--Japan.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- University of Michigan Press 2021
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship--relationality with the other through the skin--in modern Japanese writing.The concept of the unreachable--that is, the lack of characters' complete ability to touch what they try to reach for--provides a critical intervention on the issue of intimacy.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Citations and Names
- Introduction: Literary Touch to Mediate the Senses
- Chapter 1 Loved Object: The Unreachable
- Chapter 2 Touch in Plays of Distance, Shadow, Light
- Chapter 3 Mediated Touch: Membrane, Skin, the "I"
- Chapter 4 Renewing Relationship through the Skin
- Conclusion: Touching through Language
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-90587-2
- 0-472-12930-9
- OCLC:
- 1263873133
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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