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Navigating Deep River Navigating Deep River New Perspectives on Shu¯saku Endo¯’s Final Novel EDITED BY MARK W. DENNIS AND DARREN J. N. MIDDLETON Cover design by Hugh Cowling. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2020 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dennis, Mark W., editor. | Middleton, Darren J. N., 1966– editor. Title: Navigating Deep River : new perspectives on Shusaku Endo’s final novel / Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton. Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019016745 | ISBN 9781438477978 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438477985 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Endō, Shūsaku, 1923–1996. Fukai kawa. | Endō, Shūsaku, 1923–1996—Criticism and interpretation. Classification: LCC PL849.N4 Z78 2020 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016745 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Van C. Gessel, translator, literary critic, mentor, friend, and recent recipient of one of the highest non-Japanese civilian honors. With abiding affection Contents Acknowledgments xi Foreword The Myths of Ganga xiii Julian Crandall Hollick Introduction A Novel We Have Loved 1 Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton Part One: Historical and Comparative Approaches Chapter One Navigating Deep River through the Lens of Buddhist Thought 29 Mark W. Dennis Chapter Two A Gaze Turned Inward: Perspectives from the Orient 57 Mini Chandran Chapter Three Japan’s Orient and Animal Theology in Endō Shūsaku’s Deep River 73 Zhange Ni Chapter Four Religion and Violence in Deep River 89 Ronald Green viii Contents Chapter Five Endō Shūsaku: The Long Road to the Deep River 107 Mark Williams Part Two: Literary and Theological Approaches Chapter Six Catholic Convergences in Deep River 127 Mark Bosco and Christopher Wachal Chapter Seven Shūsaku Endō and Flannery O’Connor on the Grotesque 149 Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith Chapter Eight From “Catholic” to “catholic”: Arriving at Deep River 167 Maeri Megumi Chapter Nine Deep River as Endō’s Book of Job: Gathering a Community of Sufferers at the Water’s Edge 181 Van C. Gessel Chapter Ten Mitsuko, That’s Me: Autobiographical Space in Endō Shūsaku’s Final Novel 197 Justyna Weronika Kasza Chapter Eleven Imagining India: Traversing Deep River with Enami and Ōtsu 213 P. A. George Chapter Twelve Endō Shūsaku and Religious Pluralism 231 Emi Mase-Hasegawa Chapter Thirteen Endō Shūsaku’s Process Panentheism 245 Darren J. N. Middleton Contents ix Chapter Fourteen Japanese Sensibility and Transcendence in Deep River 261 Dennis Hirota Afterword Deep and Wide: Tourists and Pilgrims in the Shallows 287 S. Brent Plate For Further Reading 295 Contributors 305 Index 311
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