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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
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0824820401
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082482136X
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0585326460
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0824863763
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9780824820404
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9780824821364
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9780585326467
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9780824863760
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Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, "mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large"? Or do they contain their own critical components, albeit in altered form? Oe and Beyond surveys the accomplishments of Oe and other writers of the postwar generation while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "Post-Oe" generation. Despite the unprecedented availability today of the work of many of these writers in excellent English translations, some twenty years have passed since a collection of critical essays has appeared to guide the interested reader through the fascinating world of contemporary Japanese fiction. Oe and Beyond is a sampling of the best research and thinking on the current generation of Japanese writers being done in English. The essays in this volume explore such subjects as the continuing resonances of the atomic bombings; the notion of "transnational subjects"; the question of the "de-canonization" (as well as the "re-canonization") of writers; the construction (and deconstruction) of gender models; the quest for spirituality amid contemporary Japanese consumer affluence; post-modernity and Japanese "infantilism"; the intertwining connections between history, myth-making, and discrimination; and apocalyptic visions of fin de siecle Japan. Contributors pursue various methodological and theoretical approaches to reveal the breadth of scholarship on modern Japanese literature. The essays reflect some of the latest thinking, both Western and Japanese, on such topics as subjectivity, gender, history, modernity, and the postmodern. Oe and Beyond includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, Ohba Minako, Shimada Masahiko, Takahashi Takako, and Yoshimoto Banana. Contributors: Davinder L. Bhowmik, Philip Gabriel, Van C. Gessel, Adrienne Hurley, Susan J. Napier, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Jay Rubin, Atsuko Sakaki, Ann Sherif, Stephen Snyder, Mark Williams, Eve Zimmerman
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index
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Introduction
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Oe Kenzaburo and the Search for the Sublime at the End of the Twentieth Century
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The Road to the River: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku
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Temporal Discontinuity in the Atomic Bomb Fiction of Hayashi Kyoko
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Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Minako
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Double Vision: Divided Narrative Focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosoi Seyo, Waga Tamashii Yo
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In the Trap of Words: Nakagami Kenji and the Making of Degenerate Fictions
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(Re)Canonizing Kurahashi Yumiko: Toward Alternative Perspectives for "Modern" "Japanese" "Literature"
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Murakami Haruki's Two Poor Aunts Tell Everything They Know About Sheep, Wells, Unicorns, Proust, Elephants, and Magpies
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Extreme Imagination: The Fiction of Murakami Ryu
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Dream Messengers, Rental Children, and The Infantile: Shimada Masahiko and the Possibilities of the Postmodern
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Arguing With the Real: Kanai Mieko
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Japanese Without Apology: Yoshimoto Banana and Healing
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In English
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ISBN 0824820401
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ISBN 9780824820404
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ISBN 082482136X
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ISBN 9780824821364
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ōe and beyond Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1999
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Englisch
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Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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