The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity - Rilegato

Napier, Susan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415124573 ISBN 13: 9780415124577

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1995

Riassunto

Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.

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This text argues that modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the 20th century. This work explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society, taking in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, "Akira" , and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for an analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415124573
• ISBN 13: 9780415124577
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 268