Murakami Haruki : the simulacrum in contemporary Japanese culture / Michael Seats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seats, Michael, 1958-

Series:

Studies of modern Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murakami, Haruki, 1949---Criticism and interpretation.

Murakami, Haruki.

Murakami, Haruki, 1949-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. This critique is mirrored in the practices of current media-entertainment technologies which allow Murakami's works, and their critical/promotional meta-texts, to cohere under the rubric of the so-called 'Murakami Phenomenon.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-358) and index.

ISBN:

0739107852

OCLC:

65407168

Publisher Number:

9780739107850