| Description |
vii, 317 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Oe Kenzaburo and the search for the sublime at the end of the twentieth century / Susan J. Napier -- The road to the river : the fiction of Endo Shusaku / Van C. Gessel -- Temporal discontinuity in the atomic bomb fiction of Hayashi Kyoko / Davinder L. Bhowmik -- Demons, transnational subjects, and the fiction of Ohba Minako / Adrienne Hurley -- Double vision : divided narrative focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosoi Seyo, Waga Tamashii Yo / Mark Williams -- In the trap of words : Nakagami Kenji and the making of degenerate fictions / Eve Zimmerman -- (Re)canonizing Kurahashi Yumiko : toward alternative perspectives for "modern" "Japanese" "literature" / Atsuko Sakaki -- Murakami Haruki's two poor aunts tell everything they know about sheep, wells, unicorns, Proust, elephants, and magpies / Jay Rubin -- Extreme imagination : the fiction of Murakami Ryu / Stephen Snyder -- Dream messengers, rental children, and the infantile : Shimada Masahiko and the possibilities of the postmodern / Philip Gabriel -- Arguing with the real : Kanai Mieko / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Japanese without apology : Yoshimoto Banana and healing / Ann Sherif. |
| Subject |
Japanese fiction -- 1945- -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Snyder, Stephen, 1957-
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Gabriel, Philip, 1953-
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| ISBN |
082482136X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0824820401 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780824820404 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780824821364 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 173256880 |
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UKNTL 0824820401 |
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