Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

INTRODUCTION SECTION 1: 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 Freeman 4. Inner Pieces: Isolation, Inclusion, and Interiority in Modern Women's Fiction, Amanda C. Seaman SECTION 2: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY 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 SECTION 3: LITERATURE AND POLITICS 8. The Proletarian Literature Movement: Experiment and Experience, Mats Karlsson 9. Writing and Politics: Japanese Literature and the Fifteen Years War (1930-1945), Leith Morton 10. Expedient Conversion? Tenko in Trans-war Japanese Literature, Mark Williams 11. Reading Unequal Japan-U.S. Relations in Postwar Japanese Fiction, Kota Inoue SECTION 4: 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 SECTION 5: 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 Ch'ang-Saeng's Crimson Fruit, Catherine Ryu SECTION 6: 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 SECTION 7: 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