1st Edition
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
Foreword: Liberty and equality in Japan’s unequal society, Suzuki Sadami 1. Towards an introduction: Japan’s literature of precarity, Roman Rosenbaum 2. Kirino Natsuo’s Metabola, or the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the precarity of contemporary existence, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt 3. Precarity, kawaii (cuteness), and their impact on environmental discourse in Japan, W. Puck Brecher 4. Part-timer, buy a house. Middle-class precarity, sentimentality and learning the meaning of work, Christopher Perkins 5. Precarious attraction: Abe Kazushige’s Individual Projection post-bubble, Maria Roemer 6. Hirabayashi Eiko and the projection of a viable proletarian vision, Mats Karlsson 7.The Precarious Self: Love, melancholia and the eradication of adolescence in Makoto Shinkai’s anime works, Maria Grajdian 8. Graphic representation of the precariat in popular culture, Roman Rosenbaum 9.Towards new literary trend: Contemporary Japanese society mirrored in literature, Yasuko Claremont 10. Cinematic Narratives of Precarity: Gender and Affect in Contemporary Japan, Ritu Vij 11. Precarity beyond 3/11 or ‘Living Fukushima’––Power, politics, and space in Wagô Ryôichi’s poetry of disaster, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Biography
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, Japan.
Roman Rosenbaum is Honorary Associate in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.
