Navigating Deep River: New Perspectives On Shusaku Endo's Final Novel

An interdisciplinary dialogue with Shusaku Endo's last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews. In Navigating Deep River, Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton have curated a wide-ranging discussion of Shusaku Endo's final novel, Deep River, in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India's holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential renewal. Navigating Deep River evaluates and probes Endo's decades-long search to find the words to explain Transcendent Mystery, the difficult tension between faith and doubt, the purpose of spiritual journeys, and the challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in an increasingly diverse world. The contributors, including Van C. Gessel who translated Deep River into English in 1994, offer an engaged and patient exploration of this major text in world fiction, and this anthology promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West. ?his volume contextualizes, delineates, and articulates the complex religious/theological/spiritual dimensions of Deep River and its rich intertextual, interpersonal, psychosocial, and literary aspects. There are few edited volumes in which so many experts focus on a single Japanese text in this sustained manner, and this stands as a model of how to do so deftly and productively.??David C. Stahl, author of Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film

• • Author: Mark W. Dennis, Darren J. N. Middleton
• • Publisher: State University Of New York Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 01, 2020
• • Number of Pages: 350 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 143847797X
• • ISBN-13: 9781438477978