Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature by Rachael Hutchinson (English)

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The handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. The chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory.

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The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. The Handbook examines various modes of literary production (such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays) as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated. Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a 'person of letters' and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas – not labelled a 'novelist' or 'poet', but a 'writer' who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods.The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. It represents a wide variety of critical approaches, giving the study a broad range of perspectives. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History.

Author Biography

Rachael Hutchinson is an Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, USA.Leith Douglas Morton is a Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONSECTION 1: LITERATURE, SPACE AND TIME1. Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature2. Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in Haiku and Tanka3. Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Tokyo Space4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women's FictionSECTION 2: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature6. Feminism and Japanese Literature7. Nagai Kaf's feminist perspectiveSECTION 3: LITERATURE AND POLITICS8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience9. Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1930-1945)10. Expedient Conversion? Tenk in Trans-war Japanese Literature11. Reading Unequal Japan-U.S. Relations in Postwar Japanese Fiction SECTION 4: WRITING WAR MEMORY12. Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Responsible History13. Writing and Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature14. The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome KatsumotoSECTION 5: NATIONAL AND COLONIAL IDENTITIES 15. Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures16. National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy17. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch'ang-Saeng's Crimson Fruit SECTION 6: BUNJIN and THE BUNDAN 18. Kuki Shz as philosopher-poet19. 'The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Reflections on Bundan Discourse20. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the Contemporary BundanSECTION 7: LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY 21. Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel22. Narrative in the Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials23. Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Differance

Review

"The Routledge Handbook is particularly refreshing because it does not tackle Japanese literature from an exclusively chronological perspective. Instead, the essays are grouped thematically, creating sections on space and time, gender and sexuality, identity, technology and several others. As Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton aptly argue in their introduction, it is this inclusion of significant sections on queer and female fiction that differentiates this handbook from its predecessors and makes it truly up-to-date."Alice French, The Japan Society

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"The Routledge Handbook is particularly refreshing because it does not tackle Japanese literature from an exclusively chronological perspective. Instead, the essays are grouped thematically, creating sections on space and time, gender and sexuality, identity, technology and several others. As Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton aptly argue in their introduction, it is this inclusion of significant sections on queer and female fiction that differentiates this handbook from its predecessors and makes it truly up-to-date." Alice French, The Japan Society

Details ISBN1138792292 Short Title ROUTLEDGE HANDBK OF MODERN JAP Language English ISBN-10 1138792292 ISBN-13 9781138792296 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Leith Douglas Morton Affiliation University of Delaware, USA Year 2016 DEWEY 895.609006 Pages 354 Publication Date 2016-06-13 UK Release Date 2016-06-13 AU Release Date 2016-06-13 NZ Release Date 2016-06-13 Author Leith Douglas Morton Illustrations 2 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9780367355739 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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