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03667aam a2200493 i 4500 001 EA5B8E5C9F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 191119t20202020maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019044016 020 $a 0674244400 020 $a 9780674244405 035 $a (OCoLC)1114423499 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d GZM $d YUS $d VLW $d UKMGB $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ja--- 050 00 $a PL787.E53 $b W37 2020 082 00 $a 895.63/14 $2 23 100 1 $a Watanabe, Takeshi, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Flowering tales : $b women exorcising history in Heian Japan / $c Takeshi Watanabe. 246 30 $a Women exorcising history in Heian Japan 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Asia Center ; $c 2020. 300 $a xv, 303 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Harvard East Asian monographs ; $v 427 540 $a Current Copyright Fee: GBP6.40 $c 0. $5 Uk 520 $a "Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough, but for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), the health of its eleventh-century community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale that covers about a hundred-fifty years of births, deaths, and happenings of late Heian society, a golden age of court literature. Takeshi Watanabe contends that the blossoming of tale literature, marked by The Tale of Genji, inspired what he describes as Eiga's affective history: an exorcism of embittered spirits whose stories needed to be retold to ensure peace. Tracing narrative arcs of political marginalized personages, Watanabe shows how Eiga, adapting the discourse and strategies of The Tale of Genji, reconnected wayward ghosts into the community through figural 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 in funerary practices, lack of political support, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these voices to trouble conceptions of history: how it ought to be recounted, who got to record it, and why remembering mattered"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. The Genealogy of Eiga monogatari -- 2. The Buried Mothers of the Middle Regent's House -- 3. The Other Empress: Seishi and the Figural Genealogy -- 4. Fathers and Daughters as Spirit Possessions -- 5. The Sequel: Matching Change with Continuity -- Epilogue: The Sacred Mirror -- Glossary of Personages and Their Genealogies by Chapter. 630 00 $a Eiga monogatari. 630 07 $a Eiga monogatari. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01368436 648 7 $a 794-1185 $2 fast 650 0 $a Historical fiction, Japanese $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Japanese fiction $y Heian period, 794-1185 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 0 $a Courts and courtiers in literature. 650 7 $a Courts and courtiers in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881835 650 7 $a Historical fiction, Japanese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958058 650 7 $a Japanese fiction $x Heian period. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01711078 650 7 $a Women in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177912 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Harvard East Asian monographs ; $v 427. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015717.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA5B8E5C9F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search