Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Qiao, Mina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Murakami Haruki, Ogawa Yoko, Tawada Yoko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizo, Murakami Ryu, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines the role of extramundane topos from an interdisciplinary approach. As writers navigate fantastical spaces in resistance to the logic of everyday life, they are able to challenge the dualistic norms on the body and mind that typify modern Japanese life. These studies demonstrate the essential role played by fantastical spaces in the development of modern Japanese literature to the present day. Scholars of Japanese studies, literature, and other fields will find this book an excellent resource for teaching and research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793646132
• Artikelnr.: 63581751

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mina Qiao teaches Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature: An
Introduction by Mina Qiao
Chapter One: The Layered Everyspace in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki by
Matthew C. Strecher
Chapter Two: Shojo, Mother, and the Uncanny Space in Ogawa Yoko's Writings
by Mina Qiao
Chapter Three: Textual, Liminal, Fantastical Spaces in Kanai Mieko's Early
Writings by Anthony Bekirov
Chapter Four: Cannibalistic Space and Reproduction in Japanese Speculative
Fiction by Kazue Harada
Chapter Five: Ports in a Storm: The Poetics of Space in Hino Keizo by
Amanda C. Seaman
Chapter Six: The Foreign Land Outside Japan: an Attempted Solution to
Abjection in Murakami Ryu's Fiction by Francesca Bianco
Chapter Seven: The Fantastical Space of Exile in Tawada Yoko's Memoirs of a
Polar Bear by Barbara Hartley
Chapter Eight: Minding the Gap in Kawakami Hiromi by Mina Qiao and Matthew
C. Strecher
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