Author

Publication

2008-06-15 - Harvard University Asia Center

Language

English

Word Count

62,500 words, Guess

Page Count

250 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008008830
  • OCLC Control Number212628050
  • Better World Books9780674028333
  • Better World BooksW8-BTD-437
  • Open LibraryOL11125233M

Classifications

  • LCCPL856.U673Z87 2008
  • LCCPL856.U673 Z87 2008

Description

"Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of Murakami's fiction, Rebecca Suter complicates our understanding of the author's oeuvre and highlights his contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami's short stories - less known in the West but equally worthy of critical attention - as sites of some of the author's bolder experiments in manipulating literary (and everyday) language, honing cross-cultural allusions, and crafting meta-fictional techniques. This study scrutinizes Murakami's fictional worlds and their extra-literary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization."--book jacket.

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