{"product_id":"navigating-narratives-by-gustav-heldt-9780674295827","title":"Navigating Narratives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, \u003cem\u003eNavigating Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e offers unique insights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of its most enigmatic and consequential texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNamed after the province once governed by its creator, Ki no Tsurayuki (d. 946), \u003cem\u003eTosa nikki\u003c\/em\u003e (The Tosa Diary) purports to be the record of a voyage kept by an anonymous woman in the entourage of an ex-governor returning to the capital. This split between fictional narrator and historical author has usually led readers to place the diary in narratives privileging one of those two figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is that \u003cem\u003eTosa nikki\u003c\/em\u003e has been valued primarily as either the first Heian woman's memoir or the last aesthetic manifesto of a man whose writings shaped the Japanese poetic tradition for centuries afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNavigating Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to steer away from the anachronistic assumptions and author-centric readings informing these accounts. By focusing instead on the diary's reception as a parody by its earliest readers, Heldt argues that it merits attention for the discursive practices, representational conventions, and non-elite social contexts it illuminates as the world's first short novelistic work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461197512940,"sku":"9780674295827","price":118.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674295827-navigating-narratives.jpg?v=1774961788","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/navigating-narratives-by-gustav-heldt-9780674295827","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}