"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. Including sections on space and time, gender and sexuality, politics, war memory, national and colonial identities and the production and dissemination of literature, the Handbook examines the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relationto critical theory. It also features updated and brand-new chapters addressing the works of interna-tionally renowned writers such as Futabatei Shimei and Murakami Haruki and defines the way writers produce literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and un-derstood by different readers in different time periods. Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook examines modes of literary produc-tion such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated and as such it will be a vital resource for students and scholars of Japa-nese Literature, literature in translation and modern and contemporary literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
Including sections on space and time, gender and sexuality, politics, war memory, national and colonial identities and the production and dissemination of literature, the Handbook examines the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. It also features updated and brand-new chapters addressing the works of internationally renowned writers such as Futabatei Shimei and Murakami Haruki and defines the way writers produce literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods.
Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook examines modes of literary production such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated and as such it will be a vital resource for students and scholars of Japanese Literature, literature in translation and modern and contemporary literature.
Introduction Section 1: Literature, Space and Time
1. Space and Time in
Modern Japanese Literature
2. Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in
Haiku and Tanka
3. Kawabata Yasunaris The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and
Stories of Prewar Tokyo
4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and
Interiority in Modern Womens Fiction Section 2: Gender, Sexuality and the
Body
5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature
6. Feminism and Japanese
Literature
7. Nagai Kafs Feminist Perspective Section 3: Literature and
Politics
8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience
9.
Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War
(1931-1945)
10. Expedient Conversion? Tenk in Transwar Japanese Literature
11. Postwar Japanese Fiction and the Legacy of Unequal JapanUS Relations
Section 4: Writing War Memory
12. Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma,
Narrative Memory and Responsible History
13. Writing and Remembering the
Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature
14. The Need to Narrate the
Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto Section 5: National and
Colonial Identities
15. Framing Dysfluency in Modern Japanese Literature:
Speech Disability, Language Exper-iments, and the National Subject
16.
Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its
Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures
17. National Literature and Beyond:
Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy
18. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in
Kim Chang-Saengs Crimson Fruit Section 6: Bunjin and the Bundan
19. Kuki
Shz as Philosopher-Poet
20. The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Actors in Bundan
Discourse
21. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the
Contemporary Bundan
22. Standing with the Egg: Murakami Harukis Two-World
Literature Section 7: Literature and Technology
23. Electronic Literature and
Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel
24. Narrative in the
Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials
25. Japanese Twitterature:
Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Différance
Rachael Hutchinson is Elias Ahuja Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. Her research focuses on identity and representation in Japanese fiction, film, manga and videogames.
Leith Morton is a Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan.
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