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Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes ( Eiga monogatari ), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale, which covers about 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings in late Heian society, a golden age of court literature in womens hands. Takeshi Watanabe contends that the blossoming of tales, marked by The Tale of Genji , inspired Eigas new affective history: an exorcism of embittered spirits whose stories needed to be retold to ensure peace. Tracing the narrative arcs of politically marginalized figures, Watanabe shows how Eigas female authors adapted the discourse and strategies of The Tale of Genji to rechannel wayward ghosts into the community through genealogies that relied not on blood but on literary resonances. These reverberations, highlighted through comparisons to contemporaneous accounts in courtiers journals, echo through shared details of funerary practices, political life, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these eleventh-centur

Author

Takeshi Watanabe

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center ; Distributed by Harvard University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684176090

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Science