Nina Cornyetz: 2 books
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature
Polygraphic Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...