The study of Japan has too often been premised upon a crude presupposition that any intellectual or artistic production is predetermined by the structure of Japanese language or culture. This rather culturalist assumption can be sustained only by a refusal to entertain theoretical critiques. This article shows that the typical culturalist argument about Japanese literature is based upon a misconception of translation and the accompanying essentialist view of language.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:13162 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Sakai, Naoki |
| Contributors | Schneider, Ulrich Johannes, Meiner |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Dialektik, 1998,1, S. 11 - 28 ISSN 0939-5512 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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