Ōe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan 9780824863760

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. ŌE KENZABURŌ AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SUBLIME AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
2. THE ROAD TO THE RIVER: THE FICTION OF ENDŌ SHŪSAKU
3. TEMPORAL DISCONTINUITY IN THE ATOMIC BOMB FICTION OF HAYASHI KYŌKO
4. DEMONS, TRANSNATIONAL SUBJECTS, AND THE FICTION OF OHBA MINAKO
5. DOUBLE VISION: DIVIDED NARRATIVE FOCUS IN TAKAHASHI TAKAKO’S YOSŌI SEYO, WAGA TAMASHII YO
6. IN THE TRAP OF WORDS: NAKAGAMI KENJI AND THE MAKING OF DEGENERATE FICTIONS
7. (RE)CANONIZING KURAHASHI YUMIKO: TOWARD ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES FOR “MODERN” “JAPANESE” “LITERATURE”
8. MURAKAMI HARUKI’S TWO POOR AUNTS TELL EVERYTHING THEY KNOW ABOUT SHEEP, WELLS, UNICORNS, PROUST, ELEPHANTS, AND MAGPIES
9. EXTREME IMAGINATION: THE FICTION OF MURAKAMI RYŪ
10. DREAM MESSENGERS, RENTAL CHILDREN, AND THE INFANTILE: SHIMADA MASAHIKO AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE POSTMODERN
11. ARGUING WITHT HEREAL: KANAI MIEKO
12. JAPANESE WITH OUT APOLOGY: YOSHIMOTO BANANA AND HEALING
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX