Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film : The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades Paperback / softback
by Marc Yamada
Part of the Routledge Contemporary Japan Series series
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This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers, and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Murakami Haruki, and Shinkai Makoto, among others.
Through the work of these cultural figures, the book also explores the struggle to define the history of Heisei—three decades of economic stagnation, social malaise, and natural disaster.
In particular, it explores the dissonance between the dominant history of Japan’s recent past and the representation of this past in the popular imagination of the period.
In so doing, this book argues that traumatic events from the years leading up to Heisei complicate the narration of a cohesive sense of history for the period, requiring works of fiction and film to explore new connections to the past. Incorporating literary and film theory to assess the works of culture, Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture, society, and history.
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- Publication Date:30/06/2021
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 16 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032086842