TY  - GEN
AU  -  Suter, Rebecca, 
TI  - The Japanization of modernity : : Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States 
SN  - 9780674028333
AV  - PL856 SUT 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Harvard University Asia Center : 
PB  - Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 
KW  - Art appreciation
KW  - Murakami, Haruki 1949-
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -