Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

Herausgeber: Hansen, Gitte Marianne; Tsang, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780367181413
• ISBN-10: 036718141X
• Artikelnr.: 62114352

Autorenporträt

Gitte Marianne Hansen is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. An AHRC Leadership Fellow, she is PI for the project `Gendering Murakami Haruki: Characters, Transmedial Productions and Contemporary Japan¿ and the author of Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating Contradiction in Narrative and Visual Culture (2016). Michael Tsang is due to take up lectureship in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in world/postcolonial literatures and media with an East Asian focus. He has published in Japan Forum, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Wasafiri, and others, and is the founding editor of Hong Kong Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Yes, Murakami Haruki is a challenge, Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang Part 1: Temporal and spatial dimensions 2. From hara-hara to doki-doki: Murakami Haruki's use of humour and his predicament since 1Q84 3. History and metaphysical narrative space 4. Murakami Haruki's Tokyo: Spatial transformation and sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation 5. Food culture, consumerism and Murakami Haruki: The kitchen in 'Z
no sh
metsu' Part 2: Narrative and genders 6. Murakami's first-person narrators and female character construction 7. Voyeuristic gaze, narratological construction, and the gender problem in Murakami Haruki's After Dark 8. Man without Woman: Sexual relationship in the postmodern era 9. Escape from stereotype? Male-male sexuality in the fiction of Murakami Haruki Part 3: Literary dialogues 10. Ask the horse: Murakami's views on literary creation and the nature of inspiration 11. Modern Japanese and European genre history in Murakami's and S
seki's coming-of-age novels 12. Trumping 1Q84/Nineteen Eighty-Four? Reading Murakami and Orwell in a dystopian era 13. Manifestations of creativity: Murakami Haruki as translator Part 4: Personal stories from the industry 14. Chasing wild sheep: The breakthrough of Murakami Haruki in the West 15. Two old translators recall the Murakami phenomenon 16. To build a pile of sleeping kittens, trying not to wake them: Rebecca Suter interviews Murakami Haruki