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Literature After Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity by Linda Flores 9781032258577
RRP: $161.25$139.14This book analyses the social impact and literary works addressing Japan's 3.11 'Triple Disaster' - The Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of the key works... -
Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance by Chikako Nihei 9781032241197
RRP: $51.59$45.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032241197Author Chikako NiheiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 152g -
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History by Nobuko Yamasaki 9780367648428
RRP: $50.30$44.14Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building. Although many feminist... -
Kitahara Hakushu: His Life and Poetry by Margaret Benton Fukusawa 9780939657650
RRP: $10.31$9.21The first full-length work in English on Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942), a leading poet of modern Japan. In addition to a thorough recounting of the poet's life and times, the author provides numerous translations of Hakush's poems and excerpts from his... -
Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan: Dreams of the Bubble Economy by Ikuho Amano
RRP: $161.25$139.14This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the second... -
This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud by Margherita Long
RRP: $69.66$60.36This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki's aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema... -
Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase Kiyoko by Takako Lento
RRP: $32.24$27.95This bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context... -
How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love by Leith Morton
$57.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055753Author Leith MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)... -
The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey
RRP: $32.25$25.27In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered... -
Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike by David T. Bialock
RRP: $95.46$83.66After The Tale of Genji (c. 1000), the greatest work of classical Japanese literature is the historical narrative The Tale of the Heike (13th-14th centuries). In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on the Heike narratives, this study also draws... -
Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars: 1690-1898 by John R. Bentley
RRP: $77.40$66.90Kokugaku "national study" is an academic field of study that spans a number of disciplines, including philology, poetry, literature, linguistics, history, religion, and philosophy. It began as a movement to recapture a sense of Japanese... -
The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame: Worlds of Memory, Discovery, and Loss in Japanese Poetry by Edwin A. Cranston
RRP: $139.32$120.49The three "essays" in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry - classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose... -
Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan by Rachel DiNitto
RRP: $43.80$35.36The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children's stories. In discussing his oeuvre, critics have circumscribed... -
Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nanso Satomi hakkenden" by Glynne Walley
RRP: $77.40$66.90Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso Satomi... -
Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of "Literature" in Meiji Japan by Atsuko Ueda
RRP: $79.98$69.09What is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. Concealment of Politics,... -
Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction by Eve Zimmerman
RRP: $43.80$35.87The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Drawing upon the lives, experiences, and languages of the burakumin,... -
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire Nina Cornyetz 9780415474603
RRP: $56.75$51.45This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most... -
Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Robert Tuck
RRP: $79.98$62.20How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a... -
Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity by Anne McKnight
RRP: $28.37$24.76How do you write yourself into a literature that doesn't know you exist? This was the conundrum confronted by Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992), who counted himself among the buraku-min, Japan's largest minority. His answer brought the histories and rhetorical... -
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States by Rebecca Suter
RRP: $27.03$21.78Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Despite Murakami's critical and commercial success, particularly in the United States, his role as a mediator between Japanese and American literature... -
A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in the Tale of Genji by Reginald Jackson
RRP: $32.25$25.27A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature... -
Licentious Fictions: Ninjo and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel by Daniel Poch
RRP: $70.95$55.35Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction's capacity to... -
Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan by Susan Blakeley-Klein
RRP: $46.38$37.87One of the more intriguing developments within mediaeval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this... -
The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey
RRP: $70.95$55.87In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered... -
Writing Okinawa: Narrative acts of identity and resistance by Davinder L. Bhowmik
RRP: $69.65$60.46Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it's emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched... -
Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History by Eike Exner
RRP: $77.40$66.902022 Eisner Award Winner for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the... -
Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature by Jeffrey Angles
RRP: $28.37$24.76Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siecle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. Writing the Love of Boys looks at the response to this mindset during the... -
An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel by Ken K. Ito
RRP: $79.98$69.09At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. An Age of Melodrama examines four enormously popular novels from this period by... -
Traversing the Frontier: The Man 'yoshu Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736 - 737 by H. Mack Horton
RRP: $64.44$52.62In the sixth month of 736, a Japanese diplomatic mission set out for the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula. The envoys undertook the mission - during a period of strained relations with the country of their destination, met with adverse winds and... -
Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese <I>Setsuwa</I> Tales by Michelle Osterfeld Li
RRP: $85.14$73.96Ambiguous Bodies draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phenomena in the premodern Japanese tales called setsuwa. Grotesque representations in general typically direct our attention to... -
Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. Pinnington
RRP: $139.32$120.49Traces in the Way is simultaneously a critical interpretation of the writings of noh playwright and thinker Komparu Zenchiku (1407-1470); a refutation of received views of Japanese traditional arts (michi); and an analysis of medieval Japanese uses of... -
Paradox and Representation: Silenced Voices in the Narratives of Nakagami Kenji by Machiko Ishikawa
RRP: $50.31$44.53How can the "voiceless" voice be represented? This primary question underpins lshikawa's analysis of selected work by Buraku writer, Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992). In spite of his Buraku background, Nakagami's privilege as a writer made it difficult for him... -
Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic by Gergana Ivanova
RRP: $28.38$25.66An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the... -
On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan by Hoyt Long
RRP: $79.98$69.09The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of... -
Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan by Terry Kawashima
RRP: $43.80$35.36Movements-of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora-are central to understanding both local and global power relationships. But what of more literary moves: textual techniques such as distinct patterns of narrative flow, abrupt... -
Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the <i>Tale of Genji</i> by Edith Sarra
RRP: $73.47$58.81The Tale of Genji (ca. 1008), by noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, is known for its sophisticated renderings of fictional characters' minds and its critical perspectives on the lives of the aristocracy of eleventh-century Japan. Unreal Houses radically... -
Double Visions, Double Fictions: The Doppelganger in Japanese Film and Literature by Baryon Tensor Posadas
RRP: $27.08$23.70A fresh take on the doppleganger and its place in Japanese film and literature-past and present Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Doppelganger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of... -
Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture by Gitte Marianne Hansen
RRP: $61.91$53.93From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women's self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in... -
Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary by Chifumi Shimazaki
RRP: $30.95$26.88The "fourth-group Noh," so designated because they are performed fourth in a formal five-Noh program, includes almost one hundred plays, and is a group of great variety: some plays are supernatural or visional, others realistic; their leading... -
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value by Edward Mack
RRP: $29.66$25.81Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth,...