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Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

Susan Napier
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Akira
alienation in literature
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Consensus Reality
Dark Side
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fantasy
gender and modernity
Guardian Gods
hard
Hard Boiled Wonderland
haruki
Internal Alien
Japanese cultural studies
Japanese Fantasy
Japanese Literature
Kurahashi Yumiko
Magical Realist Fiction
Medicine Peddler
Modern Japanese
Modern Japanese Literature
Modern Japanese Writers
Mountain Witch
murakami
Murakami Haruki
Murakami's Works
Murakami’s Works
nights
Otomo Katsuhiro
Rabbit Hutch
Reed Cutter
Secret Rendezvous
speculative fiction analysis
supernatural motifs Japan
ten
Ten Nights
Tokyo Temple
twentieth century Japanese fantasy criticism
utopian dystopian narratives
wild
Wild Sheep Chase
womens
wonderland
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415124584
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Dec 1995
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

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