Border-Crossing Japanese Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367697730 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Opis

This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan.

Spis treści

Part I  Longing for Distant Borders to Cross  1 Only Yesterday: The Queerness of Cross-Temporal Identification in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo  2 Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari  3 Flights Across Inner Borders: Japanese Picture Book Retellings of Ainu Owl Stories  Part II  Oscillation, Borders and Itō Hiromi  4 The Poetics of Border-Crossing: A Case Study of Itō Hiromi from the 1990s to the Present  5 The Practice of ‘Trans’: Observations on Itō Hiromi’s Novel Togenuki – The Thorn-Puller  6 Border-Crossing Food and Humour in Itō Hiromi’s Prose and Poetry  Part III  Borders Crossed outside Japan  7 Crossing Borders of Culture and Language: Historical Fiction Depicting Japanese Internment in Australia  8 Sydney!: Murakami Haruki’s Olympic Border Cross  9 Border-Crossing in the Collective Trauma Narratives of Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko  10 The Gaze of the Girl Displaced across Borders: Tawada Yōko’s Tabi o suru hadaka no me

O autorze

Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Barbara Hartley is an honorary researcher in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.