Into the fantastical spaces of contemporary Japanese literature / edited by Mina Qiao.

• Into the fantastical spaces of contemporary Japanese literature: An introduction / Mina Qiao -- The layered everyspace in the fiction of Murakami Haruki / Matthew C. Strecher -- Shōjo, mother, and the uncanny space in Ogawa Yōko's writings / Mina Qiao -- Textual, liminal, fantastical spaces in Kanai Mieko's early writings / Anthony Bekirov -- Cannibalistic space and reproduction in Japanese speculative fiction / Kazue Harada -- Ports in a storm: The poetics of space in Hino Keizō / Amanda C. Seaman -- The foreign land outside Japan: An attempted solution to abjection in Murakami Ryū's fiction / Francesca Bianco -- The fantastical space of exile in Tawada Yōko's memoirs of a polar bear / Barbara Hartley -- Minding the gap in Kawakami Hiromi / Mina Qiao and Matthew C. Strecher.

• "Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines selected contemporary Japanese writers and their use of fantastical spaces. Such spaces grant access to phenomena occluded from everyday life, including the geographically peripheral, the culturally marginalized, the psychologically liminal, and the physically intangible"-- 
• "Murakami Haruki, Ogawa Yōko, Tawada Yōko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizō, Murakami Ryū, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines the role of extra mundane topos from an interdisciplinary approach. As writers navigate fantastical spaces in resistance to the logic of everyday life, they are able to challenge the dualistic norms on the body and mind that typify modern Japanese life. These studies demonstrate the essential role played by fantastical spaces in the development of modern Japanese literature to the present day. Scholars of Japanese studies, literature, and other fields will find this book an excellent resource for teaching and research." -- Publisher's description 

Ämnesord

Tid och rum i litteraturen  (sao)

Plats (filosofi) i litteraturen  (sao)

Japansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Space in literature.  (LCSH)

Liminality in literature.  (LCSH)

Space perception in literature.  (LCSH)

Place (Philosophy) in literature.  (LCSH)

Japanese literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Japanese literature.  (fast)

Liminality in literature.  (fast)

Place (Philosophy) in literature.  (fast)

Space in literature.  (fast)

Space perception in literature.  (fast)

Space and time in literature  (LCSH)

Place (Philosophy) in literature  (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Literary criticism.  (fast)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Literary criticism.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

PL721.S65 (LCC)

895.609006 (DDC)