Surveys the accomplishments of Oe and other writers of' the postwar generation while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "Post-Oe" generation.
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
(10)
Stephen Snyder
Philip Gabriel
Oe Kenzaburo and the Search for the Sublime at the End of the Twentieth Century
11
(25)
Susan J. Napier
The Road to the River: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku
36
(22)
Van C. Gessel
Temporal Discontinuity in the Atomic Bomb Fiction of Hayashi Kyoko
58
(31)
Davinder L. Bhowmik
Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Minako
89
(15)
Adrienne Hurley
Double Vision: Divided Narrative Focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosoi Seyo, Waga Tamashii Yo
104
(26)
Mark Williams
In the Trap of Words: Nakagami Kenji and the Making of Degenerate Fictions
130
(23)
Eve Zimmerman
(Re)canonizing Kurahashi Yumiko: Toward Alternative Perspectives for ``Modern'' ``Japanese'' ``Literature''
153
(24)
Atsuko Sakaki
Murakami Haruki's Two Poor Aunts Tell Everything They Know About Sheep, Wells, Unicorns, Proust, Elephants, and Magpies
177
(22)
Jay Rubin
Extreme Imagination: The Fiction of Murakami Ryu
199
(20)
Stephen Snyder
Dream Messengers, Rental Children, and the Infantile: Shimada Masahiko and the Possibilities of the Postmodern
219
(26)
Philip Gabriel
Arguing with the Real: Kanai Mieko
245
(33)
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Japanese without Apology: Yoshimoto Banana and Healing
278
(25)
Ann Sherif
Contributors
303
(2)
Index
305
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