Breaking into Japanese Literature/Identity: Tatemae and Honne
Metadatos
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Asociación Cultural Impossibilia
Materia
Japanese Literature Interpretation Tatemae Society Banana Yoshimoto
Fecha
2011-12-31Referencia bibliográfica
Ishii, T., Saravia Vargas, J. R., Saravia Vargas, J. C. Breaking into Japanese Literature/Identity: Tatemae and Honne. Impossibilia, 2: 81-95 (2011). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/26214]
Resumen
Due to the application of Euro-centered methods of interpretation, literary criticism has overlooked key social aspects that are characteristic of Japanese literature. Among these much-neglected
characteristics one can include the paired concepts tatemae and honne. By incorporating those concepts into a reading of Japanese texts, the reader can discover social issues previously unseen. Banana Yosimoto’s novel
Kitchen is used to illustrate the different interactions of tatemae and honne.