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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity By Susan Napier |
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Paperback: 272 pages buy from amazon.co.uk
| "The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature" explores the dark side of Japanese Literature where modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface. A close analysis of fantasy, fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivilance felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century A wide range of fantasies, many discussed here for the first time in English, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, and the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic. "The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature" introduces the extraordinary range of Japanes fantasy and explores the role of fantasy as a cross-cultural genre. Includes a chapter: The Dystopian Imagination (From the asylum through the labyrinth to the end of the world) on A Wild Sheep Chase reviews Napier must surely be one of the most widely-read scholars in the field of modern Japanese literature, and she cogently weaves together textual elements from works...seemingly unrelated.... Napier's writing is, as always, compact and sophisticated without being at all ponderous. Her active disregard for boundaries between so-called high- and pop-culture forms is refreshing and exhilerating.... Finally, this book is a major contribution to modern literary and cultural studies in its attention to the alternative, subversive visions of society constituted by the fantastic..
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