The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity
Napier, Susan J.
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity - London Routledge 1996 - x, 253 p. Includes bibliography and index
It explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nighmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author ?e Kenzabur?. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of Utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.
0-415-12457-3
Japanese Literature - History and Criticism
C 895.6409 N16f
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity - London Routledge 1996 - x, 253 p. Includes bibliography and index
It explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nighmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author ?e Kenzabur?. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of Utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.
0-415-12457-3
Japanese Literature - History and Criticism
C 895.6409 N16f