Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, India, and Japan

by Wimal Dissanayake

Book Overview

A groundbreaking reconsideration of agency in Asian culture.

This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency-defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081662657X
• ISBN13: 9780816626571
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"