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| Hard-boiled Zen: Janwillem Van de Wetering's the Japanese Corpse as Buddhist Literature | ||
| 作者 | Overmeire, Ben Van |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.19 n.2 Series Four |
| 出版日期 | 2018.11 |
| 頁次 | 382 - 397 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders at the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
| 關鍵詞 | Zen Buddhism; Janwillem van de Wetering; detective fiction; Buddhist modernism |
| 摘要 | Though many studies of the contemporary Buddhist literature exist, such studies often limit their purview to canonised, ‘high-brow’ authors. In this article, I read Janwillem van de Wetering’s The Japanese Corpse, a detective novel, for how it portrays Zen Buddhism. I show that The Japanese Corpse portrays Zen as non-dualist and amoral: good and bad are arbitrary categories that impede spiritual freedom. Likewise, characters’ identities are fluid, not fixed. The novel shows this by insistently associating Zen with sex and violence, and by the use of dramatic motifs. However, the novel also excludes women, particularly Japanese women, from spiritual attainment, instead essentialising them as the sexual objects of the hard-boiled detective story. As a matrix of conflicting values, The Japanese Corpse thus turns out to be a case study of Buddhist modernism, and of challenges of detective fiction as world literature. |
| 目次 | Introduction 382 Van De Wetering 383 Zen, Sex, and Violence 384 Japanese Women: Between Femme Fatale and Helpless Child 392 Conclusion: The Japanese Corpse as case of Buddhist Modernism 395 |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2018.1480890 |
| 點閱次數 | 165 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.02.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2021.02.28 |
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