Haruki Murakami

Storytelling and Productive Distance

AvChikako Nihei

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter---culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult, major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:258 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Antal sidor:182
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032241197

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Chikako Nihei is an assistant professor at Yamaguchi University. She received her PhD in Japanese at the University of Sydney. Her publications include "The Productivity of a Space In-between: Murakami Haruki as a Translator" (2016) and "Resistance and Negotiation: The ‘Herbivorous Men’ and Murakami Haruki’s Gender and Political Ambiguity" (2013).

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"This is an important contribution to our understanding of the key concept of the monogatari in the Murakami literary world." -- Matthew C. Strecher, Sophia University

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Acknowledgements 1 Introduction2 Distancing Japanese literary tradition: Monogatari and language3 "Departure" from the distrust of language: Narration as engagement4 Narrativising memories: Murakami’s attempt at a realist novel in Norwegian Wood5 Distance within, will to imagine, and power of metaphor in Kafka on the Shore6 Writing in the space in-between: Murakami’s exploration of cross-cultural effects7 Conclusion: Monogatari as an antibody, 1Q84 and stories after "Fukushima"Index