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Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, Nakagami Kenji, August 2, 1946 – August 12, 1992) was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan's long-suffering outcaste groups.
Nakagami Kenji (born Aug. 2, 1946, Shingū, Wakayama prefecture, Japan—died Aug. 12, 1992, Wakayama prefecture) was a prolific Japanese novelist whose writing was deeply influenced by his upbringing in a burakumin family.
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Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction. By Eve Zimmerman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. x, 263 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2010. Nina Cornyetz.
Feb 1, 2010 · Out of the Alleyway tells a story about the man Nakagami Kenji and, from that biographical perspective, reads him as an author. In other words, its primary interpretive stance views his fiction and critical writings in relation to his life—most importantly, the effect of his outcaste status as hisabetsu burakumin on his writings.
Nakagami Kenji (1946–1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Wrung from his own experience growing up in a provincial city in southeastern Wakayama, Nakagami’s writing burst apart stereotypes of a serene, precious, and exotic Japan.
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Apr 5, 2014 · Nakagami was a member of the socially disdained burakumin caste, ancestors of butchers, leather workers, grave diggers and executioners, a group by no means fully accepted even in today's...
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Nakagami Kenji, by his death in 1992 at the premature age of forty-six, had already established himself as one of Japan’s most significant modern writers. In 1976, he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature for his novella Misaki (“The Cape”)—the first post-war born author to be so honored—and for the remaining decade and a ...
