Poetics of Acculturation: Early Pure Land Buddhism and the Topography of the Periphery in Orikuchi Shinobu’s The Book of the Dead
The article examines Orikuchi Shinobu’s novella, Shisha no sho [The Book of the Dead] (1939), as a discursively constructed amalgamation of multiple cultural and historical sources. Whereas Orikuchi tends to be considered the exponent of cultural nativism, the novella resists a nationalist impulse o...
| Published in: | Japanese Language and Literature |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2020-03-01
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| Online Access: | http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/89 |