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Zusatztext "The Routledge Handbook is particularly refreshing because it does not tackle Japanese literature from an exclusively chronological perspective. Instead! the essays are grouped thematically! creating sections on space and time! gender and sexuality! identity! technology and several others. As Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton aptly argue in their introduction! it is this inclusion of significant sections on queer and female fiction that differentiates this handbook from its predecessors and makes it truly up-to-date."Alice French! The Japan Society Informationen zum Autor Rachael Hutchinson is an Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. Leith Douglas Morton is a Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Klappentext The handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. The chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. Zusammenfassung The handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. The chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION SECTION 1: LITERATURE, SPACE AND TIME 1. Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature 2. Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in Haiku and Tanka 3. Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Tokyo Space 4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women’s Fiction SECTION 2: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY 5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature 6. Feminism and Japanese Literature 7. Nagai Kafu’s feminist perspective SECTION 3: LITERATURE AND POLITICS 8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience 9. Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1930-1945) 10. Expedient Conversion? Tenko in Trans-war Japanese Literature 11. Reading Unequal Japan-U.S. Relations in Postwar Japanese Fiction SECTION 4: WRITING WAR MEMORY 12. Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Responsible History 13. Writing and Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature 14. The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto SECTION 5: NATIONAL AND COLONIAL IDENTITIES 15. Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures 16. National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy 17. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s Crimson Fruit SECTION 6: BUNJIN and THE BUNDAN 18. Kuki Shuzo as philosopher-poet 19. ‘The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Reflections on Bundan Discourse 20. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the Contemporary Bundan SECTION 7: LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY 21. Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel 22. Narrative in the Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials 23. Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Differance ...
