Border-Crossing Japanese Literature

Border-Crossing Japanese Literature
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781000917932
ISBN-13 : 1000917932
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Book Synopsis Border-Crossing Japanese Literature by : Akiko Uchiyama

Download or read book Border-Crossing Japanese Literature written by Akiko Uchiyama and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.


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