Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

A Critical Approach

By: Rachael Hutchinson (Editor), Mark Williams (Editor)

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"Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature" looks at the ways in authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies the contributors illuminate themes and issues related to this delineation of the Other and the Japanese Self. Part one of the book concentrates on the West and Asia as a contrastive Other, focusing on Japan looking at Others outside Japan. Taking geographical, racial and ethnic identity as a starting point to explore Japan's vision of 'non-Japan', representations of the Other are examined in terms of the experiences of Japanese authors abroad and in the imaginary lands envisioned by authors in Japan. Part two goes on to look at Japan's perspective of Others inside the borders of Japan and within the same ethnic grouping and how Japanese society looks out at the peripheries and margins of its own society. Finally, part three discusses whether there is any middle ground between this typical Japanese society and the Others on the periphery.

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Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: Self and Other in modern Japanese literature	p. 1
Hermes and Hermes: Othernesses in modern Japanese literature	p. 19
Meet me on the other side: Strategies of Otherness in modern Japanese literature	p. 38
External others	p. 55
Who holds the whip? Power and critique in Nagai Kafu's Tales of America	p. 57
'Foreign bodies': 'Race', gender and orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's 'The Mermaid's Lament'	p. 75
Self and Other in the writings of Kajii Motojiro	p. 96
Yokomitsu Riichi's Others: Paris and Shanghai	p. 109
Internal others	p. 125
Passing: Paradoxes of alterity in The Broken Commandment	p. 127
The Burakumin as 'Other' in Noma Hiroshi's Circle of Youth	p. 145
Sincerely yours: Uno Chiyo's A Wife's Letters as wartime subversion	p. 165
Foreign Sex, native politics: Lady Chatterley's Lover in post-occupation Japan	p. 183
The way of the survivor: Conversion and inversion in Oe Kenzaburo's Hiroshima Notes	p. 211
Free to write: Confronting the present, and the past, in Shiina Rinzo's The Beautiful Woman	p. 230
Liminal sites	p. 253
Yuta as the postcolonial Other in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's fiction	p. 255
Modernity, history, and the uncanny: Colonial encounter and the epistemological gap	p. 271
'There's no such place as home': Goto Meisei, or identity as alterity	p. 292
Beyond language: Embracing the figure of 'the Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi	p. 312
Index	p. 332
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