Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
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Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

The Supremacy of the Present

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

The Supremacy of the Present

About this book

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction.

Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic changes of 1995 and the triple disaster of March 2011, the book underlines the importance of the perception of instability crucial for immediacy. By recontextualizing varied narratives of sudden action, violence, isolation, and alienation against crises of temporality, this book provides a model of analysis that, cutting across media and audiences, provides a key to understand the present and recent yesterday of contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture, together with a conscious glimpse into their possible future.

Featuring an in-depth approach to examples of immediacy presented through literary and popular media, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of modern Japan and Japanese literature, popular culture, and media studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Note on names and titles
  11. Introduction: The supremacy and the tyranny of the immediate
  12. 1 Immediacy in contemporary culture
  13. 2 Immediacy in literature: Takahashi Gen’ichirō
  14. 3 Immediacy in literature II: Takahashi, Taguchi, Hirano
  15. 4 Immediacy in popular culture
  16. Epilogue: Ties beyond immediacy
  17. Index