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Murakami Haruki

The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Michael Robert Seats

In his book,Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. By outlining the critical-fictional contours of the "Murakami Phenomenon," the discussion confronts the vexing question of Japanese modernity and subjectivity within the contexts of the national-cultural imaginary. Seats finds mirroring comparisons between Murakami's works and practices in current media-entertainment technologies, indicating a new politics of representation.Murakami Haruki is a critical text for scholars and students of Japanese Studies and Critical Theory, and is an essential guide for those interested in modern Japanese literature.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 384 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-0785-0 • Hardback • August 2006 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-0-7391-2725-4 • Paperback • June 2009 • $66.99 • (£52.00)
Series: Studies of Modern Japan
Subjects: Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Michael R. Seats is senior lecturer in the Division of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong.
Part 1 Part I: Theoretical Preliminaries
Chapter 2 The Murakami Phenomenon: Critical/Fictional Thematics
Chapter 3 Simulacral Structures: Modernity, the Global and the Idea of the Japanese Novel
Chapter 4 The Theory of the Simulacrum:Trajectories and Limits
Part 5 Part II: The Critique of Orthodoxy
6 Parody, Pastiche, Metafiction: Hear the Wind Sing
7 Allegory as Modality:Pinball, 1973
8 Alleory as Landscape: A Wild Sheep Chase
9 Part III: The Return of the Referent
10 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Contexts
11 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Subject and Text
12 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Stories
13 Conclusion: From Simulacrum to Differend
Murakami Haruki reinvigorates debate regarding Murakami's ultimate purpose and place as a writer, and his role in the larger debates concerning Japanese modernity and subjectivity, and is therefore a useful addition to the body of discourse on this important novelist.
— 2008; The Journal of Japanese Studies


Murakami Haruki

The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

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Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • In his book,Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. By outlining the critical-fictional contours of the "Murakami Phenomenon," the discussion confronts the vexing question of Japanese modernity and subjectivity within the contexts of the national-cultural imaginary. Seats finds mirroring comparisons between Murakami's works and practices in current media-entertainment technologies, indicating a new politics of representation.Murakami Haruki is a critical text for scholars and students of Japanese Studies and Critical Theory, and is an essential guide for those interested in modern Japanese literature.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 384 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
    978-0-7391-0785-0 • Hardback • August 2006 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
    978-0-7391-2725-4 • Paperback • June 2009 • $66.99 • (£52.00)
    Series: Studies of Modern Japan
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Author
Author
  • Michael R. Seats is senior lecturer in the Division of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Part I: Theoretical Preliminaries
    Chapter 2 The Murakami Phenomenon: Critical/Fictional Thematics
    Chapter 3 Simulacral Structures: Modernity, the Global and the Idea of the Japanese Novel
    Chapter 4 The Theory of the Simulacrum:Trajectories and Limits
    Part 5 Part II: The Critique of Orthodoxy
    6 Parody, Pastiche, Metafiction: Hear the Wind Sing
    7 Allegory as Modality:Pinball, 1973
    8 Alleory as Landscape: A Wild Sheep Chase
    9 Part III: The Return of the Referent
    10 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Contexts
    11 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Subject and Text
    12 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Stories
    13 Conclusion: From Simulacrum to Differend
Reviews
Reviews
  • Murakami Haruki reinvigorates debate regarding Murakami's ultimate purpose and place as a writer, and his role in the larger debates concerning Japanese modernity and subjectivity, and is therefore a useful addition to the body of discourse on this important novelist.
    — 2008; The Journal of Japanese Studies


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