Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82152-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 890 g

This 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchinson, Rachael

Morton, Leith Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Stories of Prewar Tokyo 4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women’s Fiction  Section 2: Gender, Sexuality and the Body  5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature 6. Feminism and Japanese Literature 7. Nagai Kafu’s 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? Tenko in Transwar Japanese Literature 11. Postwar Japanese Fiction and the Legacy of Unequal Japan–US 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 Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Crimson Fruit’  Section 6: Bunjin and the Bundan  19. Kuki Shuzo 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 Haruki’s 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.