Haruki Murakami : : Challenging Authors / / edited by Matthew C. Strecher, Paul L. Thomas.

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has achieved incredible popularity in his native country and world-wide as well as rising critical acclaim. Murakami, in addition to receiving most of the major literary awards in Japan, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. Yet, his relationship with...

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Superior document:Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
Physical Description:1 online resource (155 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Challenging Murakami
  • The Haruki Phenomenon and Everyday Cosmopolitanism: Belonging as a “Citizen of the World”
  • Our Old Haruki Murakami and the Experience of Teaching His Works in Japan
  • Haruki Murakami and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Magical Murakami Nightmares: Investigating Genre through The Strange Library
  • Critical Engagement through Fantasy in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  • What’s Wrong with These People? The Anatomy of Dependence in Norwegian Wood
  • The Transcreation of Tokyo: The Universality of Murakami’s Urban Landscape
  • “You’re Probably Not That Innocent Either, Mr. Murakami”: Translation and Identity between Texts in Murakami Haruki’s “Nausea 1979”
  • Challenging the Ambiguity of the te i (ru) Form: Reading “Mirror” in a Japanese Language Class
  • Epilogue: Haruki Murakami as Global Writer
  • Coda: Art in Conversation with Art: Another One of “Murakami’s Children” I
  • Author Biographies.