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Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan

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Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan - Kawashima, Terry
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Movements of people--through migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding power relationships in Japan 900-1400. But what of more literary moves: texts with abrupt genre leaps or poetic figures that flatten distances? Terry Kawashima examines what happens when both types of tropes--literal travels and literary shifts--coexist.

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Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan 2017, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674970526

Hardcover