Border-Crossing Japanese Literature

Auteur

Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Barbara Hartley is an honorary researcher in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.

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This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan.

Contenu

Part I Longing for Distant Borders to Cross 1 Only Yesterday: The Queerness of Cross-Temporal Identification in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo 2 Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kaf's Amerika monogatari 3 Flights Across Inner Borders: Japanese Picture Book Retellings of Ainu Owl Stories Part II Oscillation, Borders and It Hiromi 4 The Poetics of Border-Crossing: A Case Study of It Hiromi from the 1990s to the Present 5 The Practice of 'Trans': Observations on It Hiromi's Novel Togenuki The Thorn-Puller 6 Border-Crossing Food and Humour in It Hiromi's Prose and Poetry Part III Borders Crossed outside Japan 7 Crossing Borders of Culture and Language: Historical Fiction Depicting Japanese Internment in Australia 8 Sydney!: Murakami Haruki's Olympic Border Cross 9 Border-Crossing in the Collective Trauma Narratives of Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yko 10 The Gaze of the Girl Displaced across Borders: Tawada Yko's Tabi o suru hadaka no me