Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Chapter 1: Yes, Murakami Haruki is a challenge
	Murakami as research project
		Part I: Temporal and spatial dimensions
		Part II: Narrative and genders
		Part III: Literary dialogues
		Part IV: Personal stories from the industry
	Notes
	References
Part I: Temporal and spatial dimensions
	Chapter 2: From hara-hara to doki-doki : Murakami Haruki’s use of humour and his predicament since 1Q84
		Postscript 1 (written in October 2018)
		Postscript 2
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: History and metaphysical narrative space
		Introduction
		The status of ‘history’ in Murakami fiction
		Why does Murakami write history?
		Murakami as historian
		History as archetype
		War on a personal scale
		Another kind of war
		History as artefact: Kishidanchō goroshi
		The historical archetype
		The document versus testimony
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Murakami Haruki’s Tokyo: Spatial transformation and sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation
		Tokyo’s spatial transformation
		Spaces of sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation
			A closed-off alleyway
			An empty building lot
			The stairway of a luxury condo building
			The city’s sewer system
			An elevated highway
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Food culture, consumerism, and Murakami Haruki: The kitchen in ‘Zō no shōmetsu’ 1
		Food scenes and advanced consumerist capitalism
		Japan’s postwar kitchen transformation
		From daidokoro to kitchin : The vanishing of ‘things you can’t sell’
		Complicity and resistance in the System
		Notes
		References
Part II: Narrative and genders
	Chapter 6: Murakami’s first-person narrators and female character construction
		First-person pronouns and narrator types
		His construction: Boku and male watashi -narrators
		A (silent) voice of her own: Female watashi -narrators
		Voice, focalisation, and participation: Who really tells her story?
		It’s my story and I’ll lie if I want to: Trust and reliability
		Conclusion: Acknowledging narrator limitation
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Voyeuristic gaze, narratological construction, and the gender problem in Murakami Haruki’s After Dark
		Introduction
		Narrator/character confusion in After Dark
		Towards a theory of narrativised male gaze
		Narration and gazing in After Dark
		Gazing at Eri Asai
		Desire, the dual nature of voyeurism, and ‘the System’
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Man without Woman : The sexual relationship in the postmodern era
		Desire in the colour of sexual difference
		Men without women, women without men
			Women lie
			Puberty: The second sexual efflorescence or the beginning of the end of sexual relationship
			So women kill themselves
			How love can be possible
		The Murakamian hero between desire and drive
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Escape from stereotype?: Male–male sexuality in the fiction of Murakami Haruki
		Supporting roles: Gay characters in Murakami’s early works
		Edging toward the spotlight
		Towards more fluid gender boundaries
		The new macho gay enters the scene
		First descriptions of gay sex and a ‘gay bad guy’
		A return to supporting roles, but with a twist
		Every word matters
		Conclusion: Escape from stereotype?
		Notes
		References
Part III: Literary dialogues
	Chapter 10: Ask the horse: Murakami’s views on literary creation and the nature of inspiration
		References
	Chapter 11: Modern Japanese and European genre history in Murakami’s and Sōseki’s coming-of-age novels 1
		A long and wide history of the Bildungsroman genre
		From Norwegian Wood to its ‘follow-up’ Tsukuru Tazaki
		Thematic and narrative connections to Sanshiro and Kokoro
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Trumping 1Q84/Nineteen Eighty-Four ?: Reading Murakami and Orwell in a dystopian era
		The power of writing
		The power of memory
		The power of love and commitment
		By way of conclusion: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1Q84, and the Trump presidency
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Manifestations of creativity: Murakami Haruki as translator 1
		Introduction
		‘Life-writing’: Tracing Murakami buntai in translation
		Murakami buntai in Kyaccha– in za rai
			Boku
			Yare-yare
			Katakana loanwords
		Writerly creativity: Negotiating Murakami’s subjectivity as a writer/translator
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Personal stories from the industry
	Chapter 14: Chasing wild sheep: The breakthrough of Murakami Haruki in the West 1
		Modern Japanese literature as the Big Three
		Japan and Murakami at the cusp
		Translations, translators, and …
		Notes
		Reference
	Chapter 15: Two old translators recall the Murakami phenomenon
		References
	Chapter 16: To build a pile of sleeping kittens, trying not to wake them: Rebecca Suter interviews Murakami Haruki
		Notes
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Index of keywords
Index of works by Murakami Haruki