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100			_aNapier, Susan J.
245		4	_aThe Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity
260			_aLondon
260			_b Routledge
260			_c1996
300			_ax, 253 p.
300			_bIncludes bibliography and index
520			_aIt 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.
650			_aJapanese Literature - History and Criticism
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c1920 _d1920