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Dream Time and Which Dreamed It: a Translation and Critical Exploration of Kanai Mieko's Yume no Jikan

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dc.contributor.advisorAmanda C Seaman
dc.contributor.advisorStephen D. Miller
dc.contributor.authorMinto, Jarrod
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentJapanese
dc.date2023-09-23T07:26:12.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T21:19:53Z
dc.date.available2012-08-30T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-01
dc.date.submittedSeptember
dc.description.abstractThe text that I have translated below, and for which the paper that precedes it is a critical introduction, is Kanai Mieko’s short novel, Yume no jikan. I have translated the title quite literally as Dream Time. The following critique will focus primarily on Yume no jikan, read with special attention paid to its intertextual relationship with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and how I see those texts as informing Kanai’s treatment of the perceiving subject not only in Yume no jikan, but also in much of her fiction through the 1970s. In the end, I hope to articulate those elements of this piece that make it utterly fascinating to me as a reader, namely how I see Kanai constructing a Carrollian unsolvable riddle that thoroughly dismantles the authority of the perceiving subject, and by extension, challenges the authority of the narrative itself. I will demonstrate how this deconstruction is achieved through direct questioning of self-identity, omnipresent intertextuality, and persistent use of temporal ambiguity. In Yume no jikan, descriptions of the protagonist's dreams are interwoven into its basic framework, imbuing the narrative with an atmosphere resembling the liminal space/time between sleep and waking. In this narrative universe, dreams operate as unreliable memory, and the dreaming self as unreliable narrator.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/3277020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47869
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2069&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectKanai Mieko
dc.subjectDream Time
dc.subjectYume no Jikan
dc.subjecttranslation
dc.subjectintertextuality
dc.subjectauthority of subject
dc.subjecttemporal ambiguity
dc.titleDream Time and Which Dreamed It: a Translation and Critical Exploration of Kanai Mieko's Yume no Jikan
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digcom.date.embargo2012-08-30T00:00:00-07:00
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