Critical essays on
Abe Kazushige, Asabuki Mariko, Fukazawa Ushio, Ishimure Michiko, Kawakami Hiromi,Kiki Kirin, Kimura Saeko, Kore’eda Hirokazu, Mizumura Minae, Murakami Haruki,Murakami Ryū, Oyamada Hiroko, Shiraishi Kazufumi, Tagame Gengorō, Takagi Nobuko,Tawada Yōko, Tsushima Yūko, and Yū Miri. Contributors include scholars from Germany,Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Poland, and the United States.
平成30年間における日本文学の発展を分析
★この30年で最も魅力的な作家やテーマに関する示唆に富んだエッセイを収載。
(阿部和重、朝吹真理子、石牟礼道子、小山田浩子、川上弘美、木村朗子、是枝裕和、樹木希林、白石一文、髙樹のぶ子、田亀源五郎、多和田葉子、津島佑子、深沢潮、水村美苗、村上春樹、村上龍、柳美里)
★日本、ドイツ、香港、イタリア、ヨルダン、ポーランド、アメリカなど、この分野の著名な学者や国内外の主要大学の教授が執筆。
目次
PART 1: LANGUAGE
I. The Past in the Present
Dissolution of the Novel: Asabuki Mariko’s Ryūseki (Tracing the Flow)
KYOKO KURITA/Pomona College
Making Love to the Past in Takagi Nobuko’s Narihira
MATHEW W. THOMPSON/Sophia University
II. Plurilingual Literature and Storytelling
Toward a Hybrid “Literature in Japanese”:
Japanese Literature in Plurilingual Contexts and the Case of Mizumura Minae’s An I-Novel
SHION KONO/Sophia University
Murakami Haruki: The Power of the Story
MATTHEW C. STRECHER/Sophia University
Tsushima Yūko’s Laughing Wolf as Confabulatory History
DENNIS WASHBURN/Dartmouth College
PART 2: SPACES SEEN AND UNSEEN
I. Space
Beyond the Now and Then: Crafting Memory in Yū Miri’s Literature
KRISTINA IWATA-WEICKGENANNT/Nagoya University
The Space of Memory: Existential Quest in Shiraishi Kazufumi’s Fiction
JUSTYNA WERONIKA KASZA/Seinan Gakuin University
Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces: Murakami Ryū and his Depiction of Kabukichō in In the Miso Soup
VALENTINA GIAMMARIA/Sophia University
Writing Back at Hate: Zainichi Fiction Between Korea-phobia, Korea-philia, and Anti-Racism
ANDRE HAAG/University of Hawai‛i
II. The Environment
Through the Water Mirror of Amazoko in Ishimure Michiko’s Lake of Heaven
MUNIA HWEIDI/Sophia University
3.11 Animal Stories: The Possibilities of Entangled Lives
DAN O’NEILL/University of California, Berkeley
After Postdisaster Theory
DOUG SLAYMAKER/University of Kentucky
PART 3: FAMILY, IDENTITY, GENDER, BODY
Gender, Aging, and Family in Kore’eda Hirokazu’s Kiki Kirin Films
BARBARA E. THORNBURY/Temple University
Awakening the Wild Things in Oyamada Hiroko’s Stories of Women
ANGELA YIU/Sophia University
Learning Queerness: Pedagogy and Normativity in Tagame Gengorō's Otōto no otto
DARYL MAUDE/Duke University
Queering Heisei Patriarchy: Homosocial Narrative in Abe Kazushige’s “Massacre”
MARIA ROEMER/University of Leeds
編著者紹介
YIU, Angela is a professor of modern Japanese literature in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University. She holds a PhD from Yale University. She studies modernism, cross-border literature, Sino-Japanese literary studies, postwar literature, utopian studies, and contemporary literature. Recent publications include Sekai kara yomu Sōseki Kokoro (“Reading Soseki’s Kokoro from a World Perspective,” Bensei shuppan, 2016); and “Literature in Japanese (Nihongo bungaku): An Examination of the New Literary Topography by Plurilingual Writers from the 1990s” (Japanese Language and Literature, 2020).