?e and Beyond

Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Stephen Snyder, Philip Gabriel

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 1999
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780824863760
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

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Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. ŌE KENZABURŌ AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SUBLIME AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• 2. THE ROAD TO THE RIVER: THE FICTION OF ENDŌ SHŪSAKU
• 3. TEMPORAL DISCONTINUITY IN THE ATOMIC BOMB FICTION OF HAYASHI KYŌKO
• 4. DEMONS, TRANSNATIONAL SUBJECTS, AND THE FICTION OF OHBA MINAKO
• 5. DOUBLE VISION: DIVIDED NARRATIVE FOCUS IN TAKAHASHI TAKAKO’S YOSŌI SEYO, WAGA TAMASHII YO
• 6. IN THE TRAP OF WORDS: NAKAGAMI KENJI AND THE MAKING OF DEGENERATE FICTIONS
• 7. (RE)CANONIZING KURAHASHI YUMIKO: TOWARD ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES FOR “MODERN” “JAPANESE” “LITERATURE”
• 8. MURAKAMI HARUKI’S TWO POOR AUNTS TELL EVERYTHING THEY KNOW ABOUT SHEEP, WELLS, UNICORNS, PROUST, ELEPHANTS, AND MAGPIES
• 9. EXTREME IMAGINATION: THE FICTION OF MURAKAMI RYŪ
• 10. DREAM MESSENGERS, RENTAL CHILDREN, AND THE INFANTILE: SHIMADA MASAHIKO AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE POSTMODERN
• 11. ARGUING WITHT HEREAL: KANAI MIEKO
• 12. JAPANESE WITH OUT APOLOGY: YOSHIMOTO BANANA AND HEALING
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX