Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature

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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