Murakami analyzes the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. Murakami Fuminobu uses the Euro-American theoretical framework of post-modernism, feminism and postcolonialism to examine the work of these writers and also reconsiders the theory itself from the perspective of Japanese literary work.

• Introduction Western Ideologies and Japan; Chapter 1 Murakami Haruki’s Postmodern World; Chapter 2 Yoshimoto Banana’s Feminine Family; Chapter 3 Yoshimoto Takaaki and the Subaltern; Chapter 4 Karatani K?Jin and the Intercourse with the Other; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

Murakami analyzes the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. Murakami Fuminobu uses the Euro-American theoretical framework of post-modernism, feminism and postcolonialism to examine the work of these writers and also reconsiders the theory itself from the perspective of Japanese literary work.

• Introduction Western Ideologies and Japan; Chapter 1 Murakami Haruki’s Postmodern World; Chapter 2 Yoshimoto Banana’s Feminine Family; Chapter 3 Yoshimoto Takaaki and the Subaltern; Chapter 4 Karatani K?Jin and the Intercourse with the Other; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

Murakami analyzes the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. Murakami Fuminobu uses the Euro-American theoretical framework of post-modernism, feminism and postcolonialism to examine the work of these writers and also reconsiders the theory itself from the perspective of Japanese literary work.

• Introduction Western Ideologies and Japan; Chapter 1 Murakami Haruki’s Postmodern World; Chapter 2 Yoshimoto Banana’s Feminine Family; Chapter 3 Yoshimoto Takaaki and the Subaltern; Chapter 4 Karatani K?Jin and the Intercourse with the Other; Chapter 5 Conclusion;