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The fantastic in modern Japanese literature : the subversion of modernity

Author: Susan Napier
Publisher: London : Routledge, 1996.
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Napier
ISBN: 0415124573 9780415124577 0415124581 9780415124584
OCLC Number: 60262489
Description: xii, 253 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Woman found: encounters with supernatural women in prewar Japanese fantasy --
3. Woman lost: the dead, damaged, or absent female in postwar fantasy --
4. Desert of mirrors: the construction of the alien in modern Japanese fantasy --
5. Logic of inversion: twentieth-century Japanese Utopias --
6. The dystopian imagination: from the asylum through the labyrinth to the end of the world --
7. Conclusion: is there a "Japanese" fantastic?
Series Title: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Responsibility: Susan J. Napier.

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