Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

ISBN-13: 9780367181406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 308 str.

Gitte Marianne Hansen; Michael Tsang

Opis

This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer.

Spis treści

1.Yes, Murakami Haruki is a challenge, Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang Part 1: Temporal and spatial dimensions  2. From hara-hara to doki-doki: Murakami Haruki’s use of humour and his predicament since 1Q84  3. History and metaphysical narrative space  4. Murakami Haruki’s Tokyo: Spatial transformation and sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation  5. Food culture, consumerism and Murakami Haruki: The kitchen in ‘Zō no shōmetsu'  Part 2: Narrative and genders  6. Murakami’s first-person narrators and female character construction  7. Voyeuristic gaze, narratological construction, and the gender problem in Murakami Haruki’s After Dark  8. Man without Woman: Sexual relationship in the postmodern era  9. Escape from stereotype? Male–male sexuality in the fiction of Murakami Haruki  Part 3: Literary dialogues  10. Ask the horse: Murakami’s views on literary creation and the nature of inspiration  11. Modern Japanese and European genre history in Murakami’s and Sōseki’s coming-of-age novels  12. Trumping 1Q84/Nineteen Eighty-Four? Reading Murakami and Orwell in a dystopian era  13. Manifestations of creativity: Murakami Haruki as translator  Part 4: Personal stories from the industry  14. Chasing wild sheep: The breakthrough of Murakami Haruki in the West  15. Two old translators recall the Murakami phenomenon  16. To build a pile of sleeping kittens, trying not to wake them: Rebecca Suter interviews Murakami Haruki