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Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors' robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642734720Author Kazumitsu ItoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint One Peace Books, IncorporatedPublisher One Peace Books, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 168g

Haikus and Home Truths Started on a trip to Japan, as a way of using the sleepless jet-lagged nights, composing haikus became something of an obsession. Gradually the idea formed for using the vehicle of the haiku poem to take a heart-journey, from a...

A 29th-century dystopian society seen through the eyes of a mutant-cum-romantic poet; a post-impressionist landscape of orbs and cubes experienced by a wandering underdog; an imaginary sick room generated entirely from sounds reaching the ears of an...

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book argues that by understanding more about why Murakami...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501780950Author Jon L. PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University Press

This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19...

When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824895754Author Dr Fumiko JooFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962948128Author Kathleen HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Writer CosmosPublisher Writer CosmosWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788883980039Author Timothy IlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint European Press Academic PublishingPublisher European Press Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604977318Author Sudo NaotoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 140g

When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojir? had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued here, sheds light on a significant moment in Japanese history and, ultimately, adds to our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604977288Author Cynthia GrallaFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 152g

The Other Women's Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s - a full decade before the 'women's lib' movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765105382Author Professor or Dr. Christopher WeinbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612339481Author Reito AdachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823299Author Patrick MaciasFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book argues that by understanding more about why Murakami...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869076014Author Doug LinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Ingram SparkPublisher Ingram SparkWeight(grams) 168g

In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not...

A Sense of Place examines the vast Kanto region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan. Through analysis of memoirs,...

Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794-1185). In this book, Brian Steininger revisits the mid-Heian court of the Tale...

The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all...

This book looks at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author links the modern in Japan to a sense...

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a propitious time. Although Okinawa Prefecture comprises only one percent of Japan's population, its writers have been winning a...

As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than...

Joan Ericson's magnificent survey of writing by Japanese women significantly advances the current debate over the literary category of ""women's literature"" in modern Japan and demonstrates its significance in the life and work of...

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a propitious time. Although Okinawa Prefecture comprises only one percent of Japan's population, its writers have been winning a...

How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208473Author Yone NoguchiFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497954199Author Yone NoguchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 168g

American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan as it transformed over the years and eventually made its way to the Western world. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the prominent Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935434566Author Isao EbiharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Global Educational Advance, Inc.Publisher Global Educational Advance, Inc.Weight(grams)...

This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry have been shortlisted for a range of poetry prizes, and...

Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's self-image was changed forever when Motoori's great commentary explicated its...

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major...

In an important and unique contribution to the study of noh, this volume includes, for the first time, essays on the subject of one noh play written by scholars from both sides of the Pacific Ocean in their own language, Japanese or English (with a...

This book extensively analyzes the literary works of fiction that draw on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. This disaster inspired literally hundreds of fictional works in Japan from the time of the events...