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Border-Crossing Japanese Literature Reading Multiplicity
234 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
234 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan.
With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By... Read more
Part I Longing for Distant Borders to Cross 1 Only Yesterday: The Queerness of Cross-Temporal Identification in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo 2 Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari 3 Flights Across Inner Borders: Japanese Picture Book Retellings of Ainu Owl Stories Part II Oscillation, Borders and Itō Hiromi 4 The Poetics of Border-Crossing: A Case Study of Itō Hiromi from the 1990s to the Present 5 The Practice of ‘Trans’: Observations on Itō Hiromi’s Novel Togenuki – The Thorn-Puller 6 Border-Crossing Food and Humour in Itō Hiromi’s Prose and Poetry Part III Borders Crossed outside Japan 7 Crossing Borders of Culture and Language: Historical Fiction Depicting Japanese Internment in Australia 8 Sydney!: Murakami Haruki’s Olympic Border Cross 9 Border-Crossing in the Collective Trauma Narratives of Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko 10 The Gaze of the Girl Displaced across Borders: Tawada Yōko’s Tabi o suru hadaka no me
Biography
Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.
Barbara Hartley is an honorary researcher in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.
