Description
Textures of Mourning is the first full-length manuscript in English to investigate these texts' complex relationship across eras. By analyzing dozens of sumptuous images, the book pursues mortality's progression over four sections-"Dying," "Decomposing," "Mourning," and "Resurrecting"-each of which contextualizes factual and fictional accounts of reckoning with death to discern the mechanics of mourning's labor. A major intervention of the book is to theorize how the riveting opacity, coarse materiality, and skewed temporality of premodern forms trouble modern regimes of looking, feeling, and knowing. Drawing upon scholarship in premodern Japanese literary studies, art history, and performance studies, the book's innovative trans-disciplinary readings reorient psychoanalytic criticism and performance theory to map the fluctuating topography of calligraphic gestures.
About the Author
Reginald Jackson is Assistant Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance at the University of Michigan.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472130962
Author Reginald Jackson
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 1438g