1st Edition
Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin
By Fuminobu Murakami
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work.... Read more
Introduction Western Ideologies and Japan; Chapter 1 Murakami Haruki’s Postmodern World; Chapter 2 Yoshimoto Banana’s Feminine Family; Chapter 3 Yoshimoto Takaaki and the Subaltern; Chapter 4 Karatani K?Jin and the Intercourse with the Other; Chapter 5 Conclusion;
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Murakami analyzes the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. Murakami Fuminobu uses the Euro-American theoretical framework of post-modernism, feminism and postcolonialism to examine the work of these writers and also reconsiders the theory itself from the perspective of Japanese literary work.
