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The Japanization of modernity : Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States / Rebecca Suter

By: Series: Harvard East Asian monographs, 298Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ♭2008Description: x, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • txt
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  • n
Carrier type:
  • nc
ISBN:
  • 9780674028333
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PL856 SUT 2008
Contents:
1. The Japanization of Modernity 2. Murakami Haruki, Japan, and America 3. Language and Culture 4. Literature and Identity 5. In Other Worlds
Summary: 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."--Jacket
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Japanization of modernity.
Suter, Rebecca, 1975-
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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

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."--Jacket

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