Murder most modern : detective fiction and Japanese culture / Sari Kawana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kawana, Sari.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Japanese--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Japanese.

Japanese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Japanese fiction.

Culture in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of Japans detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining the countrys emergence as a modern nation-state. Kawana explores the interactions between the popular genre and broader discourses of modernity, nation, and ethics that circulated at this pivotal moment in Japanese history. The author contrasts Japanese works

Contents:

Contents; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Detective Fiction, Diphtheria, and Modernity; 1. Tailing the Tail: How to Turn Paranoia into a Hobby; 2. Eyeing the Privates: Sexuality as Motive; 3. Mad Scientists and Their Prey: Bioethics and Murder; 4. Drafted Detectives and Total War: Three Editors of Shupio; 5. The Disfigured National Body: Unmasking Modernity in Postwar Mysteries; Epilogue: Beyond the Whodunit; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5659-2

OCLC:

476140788