Title: Ōe and beyond : fiction in contemporary Japan /
Authors: Snyder, Stephen, 1957-; Gabriel, J. Philip.; Gabriel, Philip, 1953-
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Japanese fiction History and criticism.
Contents: Ōe Kenzaburō and the search for the sublime at the end of the twentieth century / Susan J. Napier -- The road to the river : the fiction of Endō Shūsaku / Van C. Gessel -- Temporal discontinuity in the atomic bomb fiction of Hayashi Kyōko / Davinder L. Bhowmik -- Demons, transnational subjects, and the fiction of Ohba Minako / Adrienne Hurley -- Double vision : divided narrative focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosōi Seyo, Waga Tamashii Yo / Mark Williams -- In the trap of words : Nakagami Kenji and the making of degenerate fictions / Eve Zimmerman -- (Re)canonizing Kurahashi Yumiko : toward alternative perspectives for "modern" "Japanese" "literature" / Atsuko Sakaki -- Murakami Haruki's two poor aunts tell everything they know about sheep, wells, unicorns, Proust, elephants, and magpies / Jay Rubin -- Extreme imagination : the fiction of Murakami Ryū / Stephen Snyder -- Dream messengers, rental children, and the infantile : Shimada Masahiko and the possibilities of the postmodern / Philip Gabriel -- Arguing with the real : Kanai Mieko / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Japanese without apology : Yoshimoto Banana and healing / Ann Sherif.