Narrating the Self examines the historical formation of modern
Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most
characteristic form, the 'I-novel, ' an autobiographical narrative
thought to recount the details of the writer's personal life thinly
veiled as fiction. Closely analysing a range of texts from the late
nineteenth century through to the present day, the author argues
that the 'I-novel' is not a given form of text that can be
objectively identified, but a historically constructed reading mode
and cultural paradigm that not only regulated the production and
reception of literary texts but also defined cultural identity and
national tradition. Instead of emphasising, as others have, the
thematic and formal elements of novels traditionally placed in this
category, she explores the historical formation of a field of
discourse in which the 'I-novel' was retroactively created and
defined.
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