In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be marginal or removed from centres of power. But why do we see these figures in this way? This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalising discourse found in these texts. Who is portraying whom as marginal? For what reason? Is the discourse consistent? The author next considers these texts in terms of the predilection of modern scholarship, both Japanese and Western, to label certain figures marginal. She then poses the question: Is this predilection a helpful tool...
In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be marginal or removed from centres of power. But why do we see t...
Movements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local and global power relationships. But what of more literary moves: textual techniques such as distinct patterns of narrative flow, abrupt leaps between genres, and poetic figures that flatten geographical distance? This book examines what happens when both types of tropes--literal traversals and literary shifts--coexist.
Itineraries of Power examines prose narratives and poetry of the mid-Heian to medieval eras (900-1400) that conspicuously feature tropes of...
Movements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local and global power relations...
