2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature
Introduction
Leith Morton and Rachael Hutchinson
Section 1: Literature, Space and Time
1. Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature
Stephen Dodd
2. Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in Haiku and Tanka
Jon Holt
3. Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Stories of Prewar Tokyo
Alisa Freedman
4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women’s Fiction
Amanda C. Seaman
Section 2: Gender, Sexuality and the Body
5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature
J. Keith Vincent
6. Feminism and Japanese Literature
Barbara Hartley
7. Nagai Kafū’s Feminist Perspective
Rachael Hutchinson
Section 3: Literature and Politics
8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience
Mats Karlsson
9. Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945)
Leith Morton
10. Expedient Conversion? Tenkō in Transwar Japanese Literature
Mark Williams
11. Postwar Japanese Fiction and the Legacy of Unequal Japan–US Relations
Kota Inoue
Section 4: Writing War Memory
12. Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Responsible History
David Stahl
13. Writing and Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature
Kyle Ikeda
14. The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto
Justin Aukema
Section 5: National and Colonial Identities
15. Framing Dysfluency in Modern Japanese Literature: Speech Disability, Language Exper-iments, and the National Subject
Shota Iwasaki
16. Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures
Karen Thornber
17. National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy
Angela Yiu
18. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Crimson Fruit’
Catherine Ryu
Section 6: Bunjin and the Bundan
19. Kuki Shūzō as Philosopher-Poet
Hiroshi Nara
20. The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Actors in Bundan Discourse
Rebecca Mak
21. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the Contemporary Bundan
Kendall Heitzman
22. Standing with the Egg: Murakami Haruki’s Two-World Literature
Rebecca Suter
Section 7: Literature and Technology
23. Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel
Kelly Hansen
24. Narrative in the Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials
Satomi Saito
25. Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Différance
Jonathan E. Abel
Biography
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.
