Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
SECTION 1: LITERATURE, SPACE AND TIME
1. Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature
2. Literature Short on Time: Modern Moments in Haiku and Tanka
3. Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and Tokyo Space
4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women’s Fiction
SECTION 2: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY
5. Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature
6. Feminism and Japanese Literature
7. Nagai Kafū’s feminist perspective
SECTION 3: LITERATURE AND POLITICS
8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience
9. Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1930-1945)
10. Expedient Conversion? Tenkō in Trans-war Japanese Literature
11. Reading Unequal Japan-U.S. Relations in Postwar Japanese Fiction
SECTION 4: WRITING WAR MEMORY
12. Critical Postwar War Literature: Trauma, Narrative Memory and Responsible History
13. Writing and Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: War Memory and Literature
14. The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto
SECTION 5: NATIONAL AND COLONIAL IDENTITIES
15. Abusive Medicine and Continued Culpability: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermaths in East Asian Literatures
16. National Literature and Beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy
17. Listening In: The Languages of the Body in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s Crimson Fruit
SECTION 6: BUNJIN and THE BUNDAN
18. Kuki Shūzō as philosopher-poet
19. ‘The Akutagawa/Tanizaki Debate: Reflections on Bundan Discourse
20. The Rise of Women Writers, the Heisei I-novel, and the Contemporary Bundan
SECTION 7: LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY
21. Electronic Literature and Youth Culture: The Rise of the Japanese Cell Phone Novel
22. Narrative in the Digital Age: from Light Novels to Web Serials
23. Japanese Twitterature: Global Media, Formal Innovation, Cultural Differance