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Good Dogs - Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nanso Satomi hakkenden" (Hardcover)
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Good Dogs - Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nanso Satomi hakkenden" (Hardcover)
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Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese
vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial
storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a
masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso Satomi
Hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern
Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by
Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848). The author argues that in Bakin's
hands, popular fiction functioned to mobilize and hybridize high
culture and low, official and heterodox ideologies, and the demands
of both the moralist and the marketplace. Good Dogs begin with
detailed examinations of Hakkenden as, in turn, a work of gesaku
(popular fiction); an adaptation and critique of the Chinese
vernacular novel Shuihu zhuan (J. Suikoden, The Water Margin); and
an exercise in kanzen choaku, "encouraging virtue and chastising
vice." Then it explores how the novel's blend of didacticism and
playfulness destabilizes the putatively moral categories of gender,
species, and social class, while foregrounding an image of moral
agency that prefigures modern individualism. Good Dogs combines
close readings of Hakkenden with a consideration of the novel's
place in 19th-century Japan (including its Meiji reception), as
well as its place in East Asian vernacular fiction.
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