Title
Nada and Sunyata in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Arguing against the story’s popular nihilistic interpretation, Loots offers a close analysis of the text through the non-Western lens of sunyata, which equates nada with the tranquility of absolute emptiness.
Published in
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Date
2016
Pages
155-175
COinS
Citation
Loots, Christopher. “Nada and Sunyata in ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.’” In Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy, edited by Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez and Akiko Manabe, 155-75. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.