Texts of the Heisei Era

Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature

Lisette Gebhardt, Christian Chappelow

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783111714974
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783112212943
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Perspectives on Regional and National Literatures book series publishes monographs and edited volumes that each focus on specific literatures from around the world. The breadth of the series comes from the deep investigations of regional and national literatures as well as their presence and perception within the international literary field. Viewed as a whole, this series is located at the cutting edge of literary studies research, with volumes for students and scholars in any area of comparative and world literature. Transnational and comparative approaches will also be welcome.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• War Memory and the Emperor: Late-Work Poetry by Wakamatsu Jōtarō (1935–2021)
• Japanese “Masochism” in the Literature of Shimada Masahiko
• The Challenges of Rībi Hideo’s Border-Crossing Writing: The “Alley” (roji) in China
• Dissecting Social Malaise in Literature: Abe Kazushige’s Textual Interplay with the Heisei Era
• Shōno Yoriko: Literature as a Battlefield
• The State as the Enemy: Kurokawa Sō’s Iwaba no ue kara – Subversive Citizens in the Post-Fukushima mirai shōsetsu and the Japanese Political Entertainment Literature
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Index