The Japanization of modernity : Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States / Rebecca Suter
- Bib ID:
- 4455570
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Suter, Rebecca, 1975-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008
- x, 236 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780674028333
- 0674028333
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 298.
- Summary:
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"Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of Murakami's fiction, Rebecca Suter complicates our understanding of the author's oeuvre and highlights his contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami's short stories - less known in the West but equally worthy of critical attention - as sites of some of the author's bolder experiments in manipulating literary (and everyday) language, honing cross-cultural allusions, and crafting meta-fictional techniques. This study scrutinizes Murakami's fictional worlds and their extra-literary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Japanization of Modernity
- 2. Murakami Haruki, Japan, and America
- 3. Language and Culture
- 4. Literature and Identity
- 5. In Other Worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Harvard University. Asia Center
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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