PrefaceIntroduction
1. The "miraculous" Story of Taichi ? A Short Summary
2. Nakagami Kenji ? A Burakumin Writer
3. Critical Reception
From Nostalgic Returns to Innovative RebellionTowards a More Nuanced Approach
4. The Monogatari and the Novel
The Classical Monogatari Tale
The Monogatari in Nakagami Criticism
5. The Dialogic Nature of the Novel
Parody, the Novel, and Kiseki
Polyglossia and Polyglot Texts
6. Theoretical Considerations
7. Outline of StudyChapter One: The Making of Myth
1. Taichi ? An Ordinary Hero?
2. The Roji ? A Mythic Landscape?Originary Myths, a Definition
The Lotus Pond
Nature and the Myth of "Japan"
The Roji as an Imagined Community
3. Kiseki ? A Tale of Nostalgic Origins?
The Monogatari and Nostalgic YearningEvocations of the Monogatari in the Text's Oral FeaturesEvocations of the Monogatari in the Text's Formal FeaturesThematic Evocations of the MonogatariChapter Two: The Dismantling of Myth
1. The Narrative PerspectiveBetween Sanity and InsanityWho Speaks? Who Sees?
2. Narrative Time and Narrative SpaceMemory and Narrative Time
Narrative Place, the Significance of the Asylum
3. Mythic Imagery Falls ApartOryu and Reijo, Disbelieving BelieversTaichi ? The Mythic Hero DismantledNature and National Origins: Another Construct Exposed
4. Akiyuki Intrudes: The "Ikuo Gaiden"
The Story of Ikuo
How the Ikuo Chapter Stands Out
Ikuo and the Akiyuki TrilogyConsequences of the Crossing of TalesChapter Three: The Results of the Telling, Or: The Power of the Tale
1. Literary Construct and the Perpetuation of Discrimination
Historical Shaping Forces ? Myth and Reality
Literary Markers of the Other in Kiseki
Kiseki and Buraku Myths of Origin
2. Inversion of Power Structures: The Emperor and the Burakumin
Emperor =
BurakuminResistance Through Language
On Death and Endings
3. Oryu's Celebratory Voice
Oryu's Story ? Her-story or His-story?
The Vio

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