Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture pdf

He is a Japanese writer and translator. Murakami has received several international literary prizes, including the Frank Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore, and was ranked by the Guardian magazine as one of the world's most prominent living novelists. His books: - Novels, one of his most important novels, Hear the Sound of the Song of the Wind (1987) Pinbal, 1973 (1985) Kafka on the Shore (2002) 1Q84 - (2009) South of the Border, West of the Sun Beloved Sputnik Norwegian Forest Dance..dance..dance Short stories The Frog Saves Tokyo (1999)

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture pdf by Haruki Murakami

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture : a reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work.