Murakami Haruki and our years of pilgrimage
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Murakami Haruki and our years of pilgrimage
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
The book includes Kato Norihiro's final work on Murakami; Kato is often called Japan's 'last public intellectual', and his chapter here is one of his few works ever translated into English
The book includes discussions by Murakami translators, Jay Rubin and Ted Goossen, as well as his English editor, Elmer Luke, shedding light not only on Murakami's work as literature but also as a product of cross-cultural communication
The book includes an interview with Murakami Haruki himself by Rebecca Suter
The book includes contributions by some of the most prominent Murakami scholars including Matthew Strecher
Table of Contents
1.Yes, Murakami Haruki is a challenge, Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang Part 1: Temporal and spatial dimensions 2. From hara-hara to doki-doki: Murakami Haruki's use of humour and his predicament since 1Q84 3. History and metaphysical narrative space 4. Murakami Haruki's Tokyo: Spatial transformation and sociocultural displacement, disconnection, and disorientation 5. Food culture, consumerism and Murakami Haruki: The kitchen in 'Zo no shometsu' Part 2: Narrative and genders 6. Murakami's first-person narrators and female character construction 7. Voyeuristic gaze, narratological construction, and the gender problem in Murakami Haruki's After Dark 8. Man without Woman: Sexual relationship in the postmodern era 9. Escape from stereotype? Male-male sexuality in the fiction of Murakami Haruki Part 3: Literary dialogues 10. Ask the horse: Murakami's views on literary creation and the nature of inspiration 11. Modern Japanese and European genre history in Murakami's and Soseki's coming-of-age novels 12. Trumping 1Q84/Nineteen Eighty-Four? Reading Murakami and Orwell in a dystopian era 13. Manifestations of creativity: Murakami Haruki as translator Part 4: Personal stories from the industry 14. Chasing wild sheep: The breakthrough of Murakami Haruki in the West 15. Two old translators recall the Murakami phenomenon 16. To build a pile of sleeping kittens, trying not to wake them: Rebecca Suter interviews Murakami Haruki
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