01900 a2200229 4500 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC CCL CCL GEN 2023-09-14 Donation 032900 0 PL856.SUT2008 032900 2023-09-14 00:00:00 c.1 2023-09-14 BK 10990 10990 9780674028333 PL856 SUT 2008 Suter, Rebecca, 1975- author The Japanization of modernity : Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States / Rebecca Suter Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ♭2008 x, 236 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Harvard East Asian monographs, 298 Online version: Japanization of modernity. Suter, Rebecca, 1975- 742433846 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 Art appreciation Murakami, Haruki 1949- lcc BK 856 SUT PL