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Informationen zum Autor Rachael Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Colgate University. Her current research interests focus on the dynamics of representation in a range of textual and new media, including the literature of Nagai Kafu, the films of Kurosawa Akira and the manga of Tezuka Osamu. Mark Williams is Professor of Japanese Studies and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include Endo Shusaku: A Literature of Reconciliation (Routledge, 1999), and with Mark Williams & John Breen (eds) Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses (Macmillan, 1996). Klappentext Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited book looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. Zusammenfassung Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited book looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Hermes and Hermés: Othernesses in Modern Japanese Literature 2. Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese Literature Part 1: External Others 3. Who Holds the Whip? Power and Critique in Nagai Kafu's Tales of America 4. Foreign Bodies: 'Race', Gender and Orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's The Mermaid's Lament 5. Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro 6. Yokomitsu Riichi's Others: Paris and Shanghai Part 2: Internal Others 7. Passing: Paradoxes of Alterity in The Broken Commandment 8. The Burakumin as Other in Noma Hiroshi's Circle of Youth 9. Sincerely Yours: Uno Chiyo's A Wife's Letters as Wartime Subversion 10. Foreign Sex, Native Politics: Lady Chatterley's Lover in Post-Occupation Japan 11. The Way of the Survivor: Conversion and Inversion in Oe Kenzaburo's Hiroshima Notes 12. Free to Write: Confronting the Present and the Past in Shiina Rinzo's The Beautiful Woman Part 3: Liminal Sites 13. Yuta as the Postcolonial Other in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's Fiction 14. Modernity, History, and the Uncanny: The Colonial Encounter and the Epistemological Gap 15. There's No Such Place As Home: Goto Meisei, or Identity as Alterity 16. Beyond Language: Embracing the Figure of 'the Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi ...