Suter, Rebecca,   1975- <br/><br/>
The Japanization of modernity :   Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States / 
Rebecca Suter 
 - x, 236 pages ; 24 cm. 
 - Harvard East Asian monographs, 298 .
<br/><br/> Online version:<br/>Japanization of modernity.<br/>Suter, Rebecca, 1975-<br/>742433846 
<br/><br/>1. The Japanization of Modernity<br/>2. Murakami Haruki, Japan, and America<br/>3. Language and Culture<br/>4. Literature and Identity<br/>5. In Other Worlds 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674028333 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art appreciation<br/>Murakami, Haruki 1949-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL856  / SUT 2008