Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

Synopsis

This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. Authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan Several chapters examine the work of exemplar border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner of war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. 　 A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000917932

Related ISBNs:

9780367697730, 9781003143178, 9780367697747

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/21/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Akiko Uchiyama and Barbara Hartley

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Akiko Uchiyama

Edited by:

Barbara Hartley