Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature The Subversion of Modernity

Name: Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature The Subversion of Modernity
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ISBN: 9780415124577

ISBN-10: 0415124573

ISBN-13: 9780415124577

Edition: 1995

Authors: Susan Napier

List price: $230.00

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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literatureexplores the dark side of Japanese Literature where modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface. A close analysis of fantasy, fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivilance felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century A wide range of fantasies, many discussed here for the first time in English, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, and the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literatureintroduces the extraordinary range of Japanes fantasy and…

Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.86" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgements


A Note on the Text



Introduction


Notes



Woman Found



Woman Lost



Desert of Mirrors



Logic of Inversion


Notes



The Dystopian Imagination


Notes



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Biographical Reference


Index