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PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-100415124581

ISBN-139780415124584

eBay Product ID (ePID)243983

Product Key Features

Number of Pages268 Pages

Publication NameFantastic in Modern Japanese Literature : the Subversion of Modernity

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Asian / Japanese, Regional Studies

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

AuthorSusan Napier

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

SeriesNissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingThe

Table Of ContentSeries 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

SynopsisAn 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.