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This new 2nd edition of the
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today.
List of contents
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 Stories of Prewar Tokyo 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 Kaf¿'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 (1931-1945) 10. Expedient Conversion? Tenk¿ in Transwar Japanese Literature 11. Postwar Japanese Fiction and the Legacy of Unequal Japan-US Relations
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. Framing Dysfluency in Modern Japanese Literature: Speech Disability, Language Exper-iments, and the National Subject 16. Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures 17. National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy 18. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch'ang-Saeng's 'Crimson Fruit'
Section 6: Bunjin and the Bundan 19. Kuki Sh¿z¿ as Philosopher-Poet 20. The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Actors in Bundan Discourse 21. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the Contemporary Bundan 22. Standing with the Egg: Murakami Haruki's Two-World Literature
Section 7: Literature and Technology 23. Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel 24. Narrative in the Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials 25. Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Différance
About the author
Rachael Hutchinson is Elias Ahuja Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. Her research focuses on identity and representation in Japanese fiction, film, manga and videogames.
Leith Morton is a Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan.
