Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 55 | 2019
Research Article | Politics, Porn and Parody in Koi suru genpatsu (2011) by Takahashi Gen’ichirō
Politics, Porn and Parody in Koi suru genpatsu (2011) by Takahashi Gen’ichirō
- Caterina Mazza - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract
This paper seeks to show how Takahashi Gen’ichirō exploits parody to show the critical function of self-reflexive literature in the novel Koisuru genpatsu. Coherently with his experience as a political activist in the sixties, Takahashi interprets literature as a revolutionary act of resistance; it can be argued that he broadly embraces the conception of art – ideally inherited by Marcuse’s aesthetic – as a space for thought and action that makes resistance to the social status quo possible. Through the analysis of significant elements of the novel’s peritexts and epitexts, this article tries to reconstruct the web of signifiers that constructs the novel, in order to show how – in Takahashi’s concept of literature - every act of speech needs to be placed in a social structure, where the agency of discursive subjects always modifies the signifying process.
Submitted: March 1, 2019 | Accepted: April 1, 2019 | Published June 27, 2019 | Language: en
Keywords Parody • Contemporary Japanese Literature • 3/11 Literature • Takahashi Gen’ichirō
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ECF_article_1730 |
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dc.title |
Politics, Porn and Parody in Koi suru genpatsu (2011) by Takahashi Gen’ichirō |
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dc.contributor.author |
Mazza Caterina |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.type |
Research Article |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2019/1/politics-porn-and-parody-in-koi-suru-genpatsu-2011/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper seeks to show how Takahashi Gen’ichirō exploits parody to show the critical function of self-reflexive literature in the novel Koisuru genpatsu. Coherently with his experience as a political activist in the sixties, Takahashi interprets literature as a revolutionary act of resistance; it can be argued that he broadly embraces the conception of art – ideally inherited by Marcuse’s aesthetic – as a space for thought and action that makes resistance to the social status quo possible. Through the analysis of significant elements of the novel’s peritexts and epitexts, this article tries to reconstruct the web of signifiers that constructs the novel, in order to show how – in Takahashi’s concept of literature - every act of speech needs to be placed in a social structure, where the agency of discursive subjects always modifies the signifying process. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 55 | June 2019 |
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dc.issued |
2019-06-27 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2019-04-01 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2019-03-01 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2385-3042 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2019/01/020 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
3/11 Literature |
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dc.subject |
3/11 Literature |
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dc.subject |
Contemporary Japanese Literature |
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dc.subject |
Contemporary Japanese Literature |
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dc.subject |
Parody |
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dc.subject |
Parody |
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dc.subject |
Takahashi Gen’ichirō |
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dc.subject |
Takahashi Gen’ichirō |
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