Podróż nie tylko sentymentalna – „Japoński wachlarz” Joanny Bator w perspektywie antropologicznej
The voyage not only sentimental: the “Japanese fan” by Joanna Bator in anthropological view

Summary/Abstract: Joanna Bator as a scholarship winner of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS) and the Japan Foundation visited Tokyo three times. Published in 2004 (reprint2011), L’éventail japonais (ang. The Japanese Fan) is the result of Bators Asian travels.L’éventail japonais is a personal and subjective recording of the experience of culturalotherness that feels an European, Polish writer while working as a lecturer at the Universityof Tokyo. In this book, Joanna Bator use an original creative technique she calls: zuihitsu,ie “as the brush guides.” The book therefore constituted a sort of collection or set oftravel pictures which emerge an image of Japan.The sentimental threads presents in thebook serve as a pretext for further discussion concerning anthropological problems andconstitute a record of experience of Ego Cogito in the foreign cultural system of signs.

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