Description: In Complicit Fictions, James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general on two fronts.Japanese literature has been made to appear deficient, derivative, or exotically different. Fujii challenges this prevailing characterization by reconsidering the very notion of the subject.Complicit Fictions confronts several historical issues in ways that will enlighten historians as well as literary critics. His skillful weaving of literary theory, textual interpretation, and cultural history makes this a book that students and scholars of modern Japanese culture will refer to for years to come.

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