Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1603295933 ISBN 13 : 9781603295932

Editeur : Modern Language Association of America, 2023

Synopsis

Essays about teaching postwar Japanese fiction in its cultural and historical contexts.

As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation's changing relationship to other Asian countries and to the West. This volume will help instructors introduce students to novels, short stories, and manga that confront postwar Japanese experiences, including the suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the echoes of Japan's colonialism and imperialism, new ways of thinking about Japanese identity and about minorities such as the zainichi Koreans, changes in family structures, and environmental disasters. Essays provide context for understanding the particularity of postwar Japanese literature, its place in world literature, and its connections to the Japanese past.

This volume contains discussion of Tawada Yōko's "The Bath"; Nakagami Kenji's "The Cape"; works by Murakami Haruki; The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P; works by Mishima Yukio; Black Rain; Serai Yūichi's "Birds"; Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan; works by Ishimure Michiko; 3/11; Araki Tetsurō; Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes; Ariyoshi Sawako's The Twilight Years; Endō Shūsaku's Silence; and works by Kawabata Yasunari.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Language Association of America
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603295933
• ISBN 13: 9781603295932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Éditeur: Bates Alex
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible