Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, Rachael.

Contributor:

Morton, Leith.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section I Literature, Space, and Time

Chapter 1 Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature

Chapter 2 Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in Haiku and Tanka

Chapter 3 Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Stories of Prewar Tokyo

Chapter 4 Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women's Fiction

Section II Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

Chapter 5 Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature

Chapter 6 Feminism and Japanese literature

Chapter 7 Nagai Kafū's Feminist Perspective

Section III Literature and Politics

Chapter 8 The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience

Chapter 9 Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945)

Chapter 10 Expedient Conversion?: Tenkō in Transwar Japanese Literature

Chapter 11 Postwar Fiction and the Legacy of Unequal Japan-US Relations

Section IV Writing War Memory

Chapter 12 Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Responsible History

Chapter 13 Writing and Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature

Chapter 14 The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto

Section V National and Colonial Identities

Chapter 15 Framing Dysfluency in Modern Japanese Literature: Speech Disability, Language Experiments, and the National Subject

Chapter 16 Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures

Chapter 17 National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy

Chapter 18 Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch'ang-Saeng's 'Crimson Fruit'

Section VI Bunjin and the Bundan.

Chapter 19 Kuki Shūzō as Philosopher-Poet

Chapter 20 The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Actors in Bundan Discourse

Chapter 21 The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-Novel, and the Contemporary Bundan

Chapter 22 Standing with the Egg: Murakami Haruki's Two-World Literature

Section VII Literature and Technology

Chapter 23 Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel

Chapter 24 Narrative in the Digital Age: From Light Novels to Web Serials

Chapter 25 Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Différance

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-041163-0

1-003-50822-7

1-04-041165-7

9781003508229

OCLC:

1532836444

Publisher Number:

CIPO000250060