Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature

Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature- Front Cover
Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction
	Bibliography
SECTION I: Literature, space and time
Chapter 1: Space and time in modern Japanese literature
	Introduction
	Theoretical approaches to space and time
	Pre-Meiji Japanese literary articulations of space and time
	Modern Japanese literary theories of space and time
	Close reading: Nagai Kafū’s ‘The River Sumida’
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Literature short on time: modern moments in haiku and tanka
	Introduction
	The aspect of time in Shiki’s haiku and tanka sketches
	Tanka as pure moment: Takuboku’s poetry of our everyday lives
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and stories of prewar Tokyo
	Introduction
	Kawabata Yasunari and Asakusa
	The New Art School
	Translating The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and the complexity of Tokyo literature
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Inner pieces: isolation, inclusion, and interiority in modern women’s fiction
	Takahashi Takako
	Tsushima Yūko
	Yoshimoto Banana
	Masuda Mizuko
	Hasegawa Junko
	Lived bodies and lived homes
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION II: Gender and sexuality
Chapter 5: Queer reading and modern Japanese literature
	Japan’s queer canon
	Two modes of reading Sōseki
	Reading for context and reading for its own sake
	Re-animating Kokoro
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Feminism and Japanese literature
	Introduction
	Prewar women’s collectives and prewar women who wrote
	Women writing postwar
	The male gaze as literary device
	Writing women postwar born
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Nagai Kafū’s feminist perspective
	Women abroad: denying the male gaze
	Women at home: subjectivity within the patriarchy
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION III: Literature and politics
Chapter 8: The proletarian literature movement: experiment and experience
	Introduction
	Ideological origins
	Literary output
	Downfall of the proletarian literature movement
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Writing and politics: Japanese literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931–1945)
	‘Return to Japan’: literature turns to the right
	Writers go to war
	The politics of propaganda: the case of Kawada Jun
	The politics of resistance: the case of Maekawa Samio
	Concluding postscript
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Expedient conversion? Tenkō in transwar Japanese literature
	Conversion – but to what?
	Writing the tenkō experience
	Tenkō in the works of Shimaki Kensaku
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Postwar Japanese fiction and the legacy of unequal Japan–US relations
	Introduction
	Asymmetry in Japan–US relations
	Occupation, Okinawa, and the A-bomb
	Toward a critical engagement
	A ‘base story’ critiquing US hegemony
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION IV: Writing war memory
Chapter 12: Critical postwar war literature: trauma, narrative memory and responsible history
	Introduction
	Master-narratives
	Unresolved issues
	Fires on the plain
	Requiem for Battleship Yamato
	Living soldiers
	Additional works
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 13: Writing and remembering the Battle of Okinawa: war memory and literature
	Introduction
	Narrative, war memory, and the Battle of Okinawa
	Approaches to the field
	The Battle of Okinawa, Okinawan war memory, and controversies
	Writing about the Battle of Okinawa: non-fiction
	Writing about the Battle of Okinawa: fiction
	Transgenerational war memory in Medoruma Shun’s Tree of Butterflies
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 14: The need to narrate the Tokyo air raids: the literature of Saotome Katsumoto
	Introduction
	Writing trauma and the Tokyo air raids
	Narrating personal trauma: My Hometown, Shitamachi
	Narrating the trauma of others: Our Street Corner
	The need to narrate against forgetting
	The role of the listener
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION V: National and colonial identities
Chapter 15: Abusive medicine and continued culpability: the Japanese Empire and its aftermaths in East Asian literatures
	Literary contact spaces in twentieth-century East Asia
	Endō Shūsaku’s Sea and Poison and transnational Japanese abuses
	Yi Ch’ŏngjun’s Your Paradise and Japanese and Korean abuses
	Mo Yan’s Frog and Japanese and Chinese abuses
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 16: National literature and beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy
	The paradigm of national literature
	Beyond the paradigm of national literature
	Blurring the line between national and cross-border literature
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 17: Listening in: the languages of the body in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Crimson Fruit’
	Introduction
	Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Crimson Fruit’
	Identity formation and the languages of the body in ‘Crimson Fruit’
	The maternal language of the body
	The paternal language of the body
	The marital language of the body
	The child’s language of the body
	The personal language of the body
	The language of the body for absent others
	Conclusion: languages of the body as a living system of communication
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION VI: Bunjin and the bundan
Chapter 18: Kuki Shūzō as philosopher-poet
	Kuki’s legacy
	Kuki’s philosophical orientation
	Kuki’s poems and other writings
	Final remarks
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 19: The Akutagawa/Tanizaki debate: actors in bundan discourse
	Introduction
	Current state of research
	Applying Actor-Network Theory to the Japanese literary world
	The debate on the essence of the novel
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 20: The rise of women writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the contemporary bundan
	The bundan is dead, long live the bundan
	Women in contemporary Japanese letters
	Isolated women in Tsumura Kikuko’s The Lime Pothos Boat
	Superfluous men in Nishimura Kenta’s Labour Train
	Nakajima Kyōko, Tayama Katai, and the futon refluffed
	Notes
	Bibliography
SECTION VII: Literature and technology
Chapter 21: Electronic literature and youth culture: the rise of the Japanese cell phone novel
	Introduction
	Mobile communication and youth culture in Japan
	Precursors to the keitai novel
	Keitai novels and the literary tradition
	Best-selling keitai novels: reading on the small screen
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 22: Narrative in the digital age: from light novels to web serials
	Introduction
	From juvenile to light novel
	From light novel to web serial
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 23: Japanese Twitterature: global media, formal innovation, cultural différance
	#twnovel: history and compression
	twnovel as short-short
	twnovel: genric content
	Fiction, event/twnovel, catastrophe
	Notes
	Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements