The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Routledge; 1996Description: x, 253 p; Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 0-415-12457-3
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • C 895.6409 N16f
Summary: 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.
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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.

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