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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965213503321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature / / edited by Rachael Hutchinson and  Leith Morton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-76221-8

1-317-64771-8

1-317-64772-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 pages)

Collana

Routledge handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchinsonRachael

MortonLeith

Disciplina

895.609/0044

895.6090044

Soggetti

Japanese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Japanese literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

sect. I. Literature, space and time. 1. Space and time in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd -- 2. Literature short on time: modern moments in haiku and tanka / Jon Holt -- 3. Kawabata Yasunari's The scarlet gang of Asakusa and Tokyo space / Alisa Freedman -- 4. Inner pieces : isolation, inclusion, and interiority in modern women's fiction / Amanda C. Seaman -- sect. II. Gender and sexuality. 5. Queer reading and modern Japanese literature / J. Keith Vincent -- 6. Feminism and Japanese literature / Barbara Hartley -- 7. Nagai Kafu's feminist perspective / Rachael Hutchinson --  sect. III. Literature and politics. 8. The proletarian literature movement: experiment and experience / Mats Karlsson -- 9. Writing and politics : Japanese literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) / Leith Morton -- 10. Expedient conversion? Tenko in trans-war Japanese literature / Mark Williams -- 11. Postwar Japanese fiction and the legacy of unequal Japan-US relations / Kota Inoue --  sect. IV. Writing war memory. 12. Critical postwar war literature : trauma, narrative memory and responsible history /  David Stahl -- 13. Writing and



remembering the Battle of Okinawa : war memory and literature / Kyle Ikeda -- 14. The need to narrate the Tokyo air raids : the literature of Saotome Katsumoto / Justin Aukema --- sect. V. National and colonial identities. 15. Abusive medicine and continued culpability : the Japanese empire and its aftermaths in East Asian literatures / Karen Thornber -- 16. National literature and beyond : Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy / Angela Yiu -- 17. Listening in : the languages of the body in Kim Chang-Saeng's 'Crimson fruit' / Catherine Ryu -- sect. VI. Bunjin and the bundan. 18. Kuki Shuzo as philosopher-poet / Hiroshi Nara -- 19. The Akutagawa/Tanizaki debate : reflections on bundan discourse / Rebecca Mak -- 20. The rise of women writers, the heisei i-novel, and the contemporary bundan / Kendall Heitzman -- sect. VII. Literature and technology. 21.  Electronic literature and youth culture : the rise of the Japanese cell phone novel / Kelly Hansen -- 22. Narrative in the digital age : from light novels to web serials / Satomi Saito -- 23. Japanese twitterature : global media, formal innovation, cultural differance / Jonathan E. Abel.

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. The Handbook examines various modes of literary production (such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays) as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated. Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a 'person of letters' and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas - not labelled a 'novelist' or 'poet', but a 'writer' who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. It represents a wide variety of critical approaches, giving the study a broad range of perspectives. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964421403321

Autore

Findlay Allan M

Titolo

The Arab world / / Allan M. Findlay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

9780203133910

0415042003 (pbk.)

1-134-96541-9

1-280-32825-8

0-203-13391-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Routledge introductions to development

Disciplina

330.917/6927

Soggetti

Arab countries History

Arab countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Perspectives on Arab development: from West to East; The colonial legacy; Political constraints to economic development; Arab oil and the use of oil revenues; Labour migration; Rural development; Urban development; Arab identity and development; References, further reading and review questions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Disruption following the Gulf War, and the need to satisfy both rising economic aspirations and the Islamic values of the region's peoples, demands fresh examination of development issues in the Arab world. This introductory text assesses how agricultural, industrial and urban development has evolved in the Arab region. Contrasting Arab and Western interpretations of `development', it draws on case studies covering states as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco and Jordan. The author suggests that until the Arabs define their own identity, there will continue to be `change' but not nece