Murakami Haruki and our years of pilgrimage / edited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Gitte Marianne, editor.

Tsang, Michael (Editor), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murakami, Haruki, 1949-.

Art appreciation.

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

Murakami, Haruki.

Murakami, Haruki, 1949---Appreciation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary perspectives, discussing their significance and value through the lenses of history; geography; politics; gender and sexuality; translation; literary influence and circulation. Chapters together provide a multi-faceted assessment on Murakami's literary oeuvre in the last four decades, vouching for its continuous importance in understanding the world and Japan in contemporary times. The book also features exclusive material that includes the cultural critic Katō Norihiro's final work on Murakami - his chapter here one of the few works ever translated into English - to interviews with Murakami and discussions from his translators and editors, shedding light not only on Murakami's work as literature but as products of cross-cultural exchanges. Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, comparative and world literature, cultural studies, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Yes, Murakami Haruki is a challenge / Michael Tsang

pt. I Temporal and spatial dimensions

2. From hara-hara to doki-doki: Murakami Haruki's use of humour and his predicament since 1Q84 / Kato Norihiro

3. History and metaphysical narrative space / Matthew C. Strecher

4. Murakami Haruki's Tokyo: Spatial transformation and sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation / Barbara E. Thornbury

5. Food culture, consumerism, and Murakami Haruki: The kitchen in `Zo no shometsu' / Nihei Chikako

pt. II Narrative and genders

6. Murakami's first-person narrators and female character construction / Gitte Marianne Hansen

7. Voyeuristic gaze, narratological construction, and the gender problem in Murakami Haruki's After Dark / Michael Tsang

8. Man without Woman: The sexual relationship in the postmodern era / Astrid Lac

9. Escape from stereotype?: Male

male sexuality in the fiction of Murakami Haruki / Anna Zielinska

Elliott

pt. III Literary dialogues

10. Ask the horse: Murakami's views on literary creation and the nature of inspiration / Giorgio Amitrano

11. Modern Japanese and European genre history in Murakami's and Soseki's coming-of-age novels / Annette Thorsen Vilslev

12. Trumping 1Q84/Nineteen Eighty-Four?: Reading Murakami and Orwell in a dystopian era / Patricia Welch

13. Manifestations of creativity: Murakami Haruki as translator / Akashi Motoko

pt. IV Personal stories from the industry

14. Chasing wild sheep: The breakthrough of Murakami Haruki in the West / Elmer Luke

15. Two old translators recall the Murakami phenomenon / Ted Goossen

16. To build a pile of sleeping kittens, trying not to wake them: Rebecca Suter interviews Murakami Haruki / Murakami Haruki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780367181406

0367181401

9780367181413

036718141X

OCLC:

1245956626

Publisher Number:

99988376147