Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature / edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morton, Leith.

Hutchinson, Rachael.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 353 pages).

Other Title:

Handbook of modern Japanese literature

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

sect. I. Literature, space and time. 1. Space and time in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd

2. Literature short on time: modern moments in haiku and tanka / Jon Holt

3. Kawabata Yasunari's The scarlet gang of Asakusa and Tokyo space / Alisa Freedman

4. Inner pieces : isolation, inclusion, and interiority in modern women's fiction / Amanda C. Seaman

sect. II. Gender and sexuality. 5. Queer reading and modern Japanese literature / J. Keith Vincent

6. Feminism and Japanese literature / Barbara Hartley

7. Nagai Kafū's feminist perspective / Rachael Hutchinson

sect. III. Literature and politics. 8. The proletarian literature movement: experiment and experience / Mats Karlsson

9. Writing and politics : Japanese literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) / Leith Morton

10. Expedient conversion? Tenkō in trans-war Japanese literature / Mark Williams

11. Postwar Japanese fiction and the legacy of unequal Japan-US relations / Kota Inoue

sect. IV. Writing war memory. 12. Critical postwar war literature : trauma, narrative memory and responsible history / David Stahl

13. Writing and remembering the Battle of Okinawa : war memory and literature / Kyle Ikeda

14. The need to narrate the Tokyo air raids : the literature of Saotome Katsumoto / Justin Aukema

- sect. V. National and colonial identities. 15. Abusive medicine and continued culpability : the Japanese empire and its aftermaths in East Asian literatures / Karen Thornber

16. National literature and beyond : Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy / Angela Yiu

17. Listening in : the languages of the body in Kim Chang-Saeng's 'Crimson fruit' / Catherine Ryu

sect. VI. Bunjin and the bundan. 18. Kuki Shūzō as philosopher-poet / Hiroshi Nara

19. The Akutagawa/Tanizaki debate : reflections on bundan discourse / Rebecca Mak

20. The rise of women writers, the heisei i-novel, and the contemporary bundan / Kendall Heitzman

sect. VII. Literature and technology. 21. Electronic literature and youth culture : the rise of the Japanese cell phone novel / Kelly Hansen

22. Narrative in the digital age : from light novels to web serials / Satomi Saito

23. Japanese twitterature : global media, formal innovation, cultural différance / Jonathan E. Abel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781315762210

OCLC:

951217622

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.