Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Herausgeber: Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina; Rosenbaum, Roman

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the transition from postwar to post-disaster literature and examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. This radically new worldview has significantly altered the socio-political as well as literary perception of one of the world's former superpowers and in this book the contributors closely examine how Japan's new paradigm of precarious existence is expressed through a variety of pop-cultural and literary media.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138104181
• ISBN-10: 1138104183
• Artikelnr.: 57053115

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Liberty and equality in Japan's unequal society 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 3. Precarity, kawaii (cuteness), and
their impact on environmental discourse in Japan 4. Part-timer, buy a
house. Middle-class precarity, sentimentality and learning the meaning of
work 5. Precarious attraction: Abe Kazushige's Individual Projection
post-bubble 6. Hirabayashi Eiko and the projection of a viable proletarian
vision 7.The Precarious Self: Love, melancholia and the eradication of
adolescence in Makoto Shinkai's anime works 8. Graphic representation of
the precariat in popular culture 9.Towards new literary trend: Contemporary
Japanese society mirrored in literature 10. Cinematic Narratives of
Precarity: Gender and Affect in Contemporary Japan 11. Precarity beyond
3/11 or 'Living Fukushima'--Power, politics, and space in Wagô Ryôichi's
poetry of disaster