Holy Ghosts
The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19188518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Suter (0000-0003-2358-9818, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Holy Ghosts (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824840013.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4232169834 |
| ISBN | 9780824840013 |
| Open Library | OL27506245M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This book looks at the repeated reappearance in modern fiction of the so-called "Christian century" of Japan, the period between the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Shimabara rebellion of 1637–1638, the last Christian revolt before the final ban on the foreign religion under the Tokugawa regime. Literature authors as different as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Endō Shūsaku, Yamada Fūtarō, and Takemoto Novala, as well as film directors, manga and anime authors, and videogame producers have expressed their fascination with the cultural negotiations of the Christian century, and produced creative interpretations of them. By looking back at a time before Orientalism, a time when the Japanese interacted with Europeans in ways that were both very similar and significantly different from modern ones, the fictional representations of the Christian century I discuss in this book offer an alternative to conventional models of postcolonial and globalization studies, and an opportunity to reflect critically on both Japanese and Western social formations. The ghosts of the Christian century that haunt modern Japanese fiction prompt us to rethink conventional notions of East-West relations, mutual representations, and power relations, complicating our understanding of global modernity
Art · Japanese History and Culture · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Study and Philosophy of Religion · Auferstehung · Christentum · Christianity in literature · Criticism and interpretation · Film · Heiliger Geist · History and criticism · I litteraturen · in literature · Japanese fiction · Japanese fiction, history and criticism · Japanisch · Kristendom · Literatur · Literature · Manga · Märtyrer · Moderne · Rezeption · Zombie
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |