1st Edition
Overcoming Fate in Postwar Japanese Literature Narratives of Christian Salvation
Introduction Bridging Meiji Christianity with the Postwar Years Chapter One The Religious Thought of Hori Tatsuo: The Tensions between the Christian God and the Pantheon of Nature Chapter Two The Dialectics of Faith of Endō Shūsaku: A Response to the Legacy of Meiji Protestantism Chapter Three Dazai Osamu: The Story of a Confrontation with God Chapter Four Ishikawa Jun: Encounter with the Transcendent Chapter Five Shiina Rinzō: Reversal of Fate and Freedom from Death Chapter Six Ōoka Shōhei: Memories of Faith Chapter Seven The Legacy of Endō Shūsaku and the Rhetoric of Evil in the Literature of Takahashi Takako Chapter Eight Art for Faith’s Sake: Paradigms Shifts in the Literature of Salvation of Miura Ayako
Biography
Massimiliano Tomasi (Ph.D. Nagoya University, Japan) is Professor of Japanese and former Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA. Areas of interest and expertise include modern and contemporary Japanese literature, rhetorical theory, and Japanese language pedagogy. Publications include Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Written and Oratorical Style (University of Hawaii Press, 2004); The Literary Theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the Development of Feminist Discourse in Modern Japan (Mellen, 2008); The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature: Metaphors of Christianity (Routledge, 2018); and the edited volume Religion and Spirituality in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2016).
