The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Litera... by Napier, Susan Paperback / softback

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0415124581
EAN
9780415124584
Release Title
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of...
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Napier, Susan
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
0415124581
ISBN-13
9780415124584
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243983

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
268 Pages
Publication Name
Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature : the Subversion of Modernity
Language
English
Subject
Ethnic Studies / General, Asian / Japanese, Regional Studies
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Author
Susan Napier
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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College Audience
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Table Of Content
Series editor's preface, Acknowledgements, A note on the text, 1 Introduction, 2 Woman found: encounters with supernatural women in prewar Japanese fantasy, 3 Woman lost: the dead, damaged, or absent female in postwar fantasy, 4 Desert of mirrors: the construction of the alien in modern Japanese fantasy, 5 Logic of inversion: twentieth-century Japanese Utopias, 6 The dystopian imagination: from the asylum through the labyrinth to the end of the world, 7 Conclusion: is there a "Japanese" fantastic?, Bibliography, Biographical reference, Index
Synopsis
An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic., Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira , and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic., Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.

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