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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note On the Text
1: Introduction
DEFINITIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE FANTASTIC
THE FANTASTIC IN JAPANESE LITERATURE
2: Woman Found Encounters With Supernatural Women in Prewar Japanese Fantasy
THE AVENGER AND THE OASIS: WOMEN IN KYOKA, TANIZAKI AND SOSEKI
3: Woman Lost: The Dead, Damaged, Or Absent Female in Postwar Fantasy
SLEEPING WITH THE DEAD: KAWABATA’S HOUSE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES AND “ONE ARM”
IN QUEST OF A DEAD CENTER: TSUTSUI YASUTAKA’S “PORUNO WAKUSEI NO SARUMONERA NINGEN” (THE SALMONELLA BEINGS FROM PLANET PORNO)
THE QUEST, SEX, AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL LABYRINTH: ABE KOBO’S SECRET RENDEZVOUS
THE WOMAN WHO WAS NEVER THERE: NAKAGAMI KENJI’S “THE IMMORTAL”
WOMEN ALONE: FANTASY FEMALES IN THE WORKS OF ENCHI FUMIKO, OBA MINAKO, KURAHASHI YUMIKO AND KANAI MIEKO
4: Desert of Mirrors: The Construction of the Alien in Modern Japanese Fantasy
THREE FACES OF THE ALIEN
METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY
MONSTERS FROM THE ID: THE INTERNAL ALIEN FROM SOSEKI TO MURAKAMI
“HOORAY FOR MONSTERS!”: THE IDEOLOGICAL ALIEN
5: Logic of Inversion: Twentieth-Century Japanese Utopias
UTOPIAS IN JAPANESE CULTURE
MIYAZAWA KENJI’S TICKET TO PROGRESS: GINGA TETSUDO NO YORU (NIGHT TRAIN TO THE STARS)
THE ENERGY OF THE SPIRIT: ISHIKAWA JUN
OUTCAST GODS?: OE KENZABURO’S DOJIDAI GĒMU (THE GAME OF CONTEMPORANEITY)
THE AGRARIAN UTOPIA: INOUE HISASHI’S KIRIKIRIJIN (THE PEOPLE OF KIRIKIRI)
A FEMINIST UTOPIA?: KURAHASHI YUMIKO’S AMANONKOKU OKANKI
6: The Dystopian Imagination: From the Asylum Through the Labyrinth to the End of the World
THE DYSTOPIAN TRADITION
THE FIRST JAPANESE DYSTOPIA: AKUTAGAWA AND TAISHO JAPAN
THE INTERWAR YEARS: FROM CENSORSHIP TO THE DECADENTS
POSTWAR DYSTOPIAN VISIONS
INTO THE LABYRINTH: ABE KOBO’S JOURNEY FROM HOPE TO APOCALYPSE
CONTEMPORARY DYSTOPIAS: MURAKAMI HARUKI’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AT THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTOMO KATSUHIRO’S VISION OF APOCALYPSE
7: Conclusion: Is There a “Japanese” Fantastic?
Bibliography
JAPANESE FICTIONAL WORKS CONSULTED IN ENGLISH
FICTIONAL WORKS IN JAPANESE
SECONDARY WORKS IN ENGLISH
SECONDARY WORKS CONSULTED IN JAPANESE
Biographical Reference
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