Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature

Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines selected contemporary Japanese writers and their use of fantastical spaces. Such spaces grant access to phenomena occluded from everyday life, including the geographically peripheral, the culturally marginalized, the psychologically liminal, and the physically intangible.

List of contents

Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Introduction by Mina Qiao
Chapter One: The Layered Everyspace in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki by Matthew C. Strecher
Chapter Two: Sh¿jo, Mother, and the Uncanny Space in Ogawa Y¿ko's Writings by Mina Qiao
Chapter Three: Textual, Liminal, Fantastical Spaces in Kanai Mieko's Early Writings by Anthony Bekirov
Chapter Four: Cannibalistic Space and Reproduction in Japanese Speculative Fiction by Kazue Harada
Chapter Five: Ports in a Storm: The Poetics of Space in Hino Keiz¿ by Amanda C. Seaman
Chapter Six: The Foreign Land Outside Japan: an Attempted Solution to Abjection in Murakami Ry¿'s Fiction by Francesca Bianco
Chapter Seven: The Fantastical Space of Exile in Tawada Y¿ko's Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Barbara Hartley
Chapter Eight: Minding the Gap in Kawakami Hiromi by Mina Qiao and Matthew C. Strecher
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Mina Qiao - Contributions by Anthony Bekirov; Francesca Bianco; Kazue Harada; Barbara Hartley; Mina Qiao; Amanda C. Seaman and Matthew C. Strecher

Product details

• Authors: Qiao Mina, Mina Qiao
• Assisted by: Qiao Mina (Editor), Mina Qiao (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781793646125
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-612-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -