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Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades book cover

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Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades

By Marc Yamada Copyright 2020
168 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers, and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Murakami Haruki, and Shinkai Makoto, among others. Through the work of these cultural figures,... Read more


List of figures



Notes on names



PART 1



Historicizing Heisei



1 Historicizing Heisei in fiction and film



2 Historical referentiality in post-Aum manga



PART 2



Reimagining the history of Heisei



3 Alternate history fictions of Japan’s Lost Era



4 Visualizing a post-bubble Japan in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi



PART 3



Memory and history in post-Aum fiction and film



5 Rituals of remembering Aum and the URA in film



6 Personal memory and public history in Murakami Haruki’s post-Aum metafiction



PART 4



Revitalizing the past and imagining the future



7 The problem of inheritance in Lost Era coming-of-age film



Index

Biography

Marc Yamada is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, USA. He received his PhD in Japanese Literature and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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