Before a fall: The role of the interpreter in Endo's Silence
Readings of Endo's Silence usually focus on the pivotal conversations Ferreira and Inoue have with Rodrigues. Too tight a focus, however, diminishes the challenge the novel poses to modern readers; Silence becomes mere personal tragedy, selling short the novel's complex involvement in Budd...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2016]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2016, Volume: 65, Issue: 4, Pages: 413-429 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BL Buddhism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations TK Recent history |
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Incarnation
B Religious Literature History & criticism B Interpreter B Sunyata B Endo B Rodrigues B SILENCE (Book) B ENDO, Shusaku, 1923-1996 B Mercy B Kenosis |
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| Summary: | Readings of Endo's Silence usually focus on the pivotal conversations Ferreira and Inoue have with Rodrigues. Too tight a focus, however, diminishes the challenge the novel poses to modern readers; Silence becomes mere personal tragedy, selling short the novel's complex involvement in Buddhist-Christian dialogue. The character called “the interpreter” broadens that challenge. His three major conversations with Rodrigues present the groundwork and summation for a challenge more perennial and more specifically rooted in Endo's milieu than would appear from just those events surrounding the fumie scene. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333115585278 |