Research Catalog

Title

Visions of precarity in Japanese popular culture and literature / edited by Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Roman Rosenbaum.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina
• Rosenbaum, Roman

Description

xx, 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war's never-ending 'postwar' period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or 'post-disaster.' This radically new worldview has significantly altered the socio-political as well as literary perception of one of the world's former superpowers, and in this book the contributors closely examine how Japan's new paradigm of precarious existence is expressed through a variety of pop-cultural as well as literary media. Addressing the transition from post-war to post-disaster literature, this book examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. The chapters investigate the extent to which we can talk about the emergence of a new literary paradigm of precarity in the world of Japanese popular culture, and analysis of a variety of contemporary texts from literature, manga and anime, television drama and film offers an interpretation of the many dissonant voices in Japanese society. The contributors also outline the related social issues in Japanese society and culture, providing a comprehensive overview of the global trends that link Japan with the rest of the world. Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature will of great interest to students and scholars of contemporary Japan, Japanese culture and society, popular culture and social and cultural history"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; [57]

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 57.

Subjects

• Precarious employment
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
• Japan
• Marginality, Social, in literature
• Pop-Kultur
• Prekariat
• Massenkultur
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > General
• Precarious employment > Japan
• Literature and society > Japan
• Literatur
• Armut
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General
• Popular culture > Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.

Contents

Towards an introduction : Japan's literature of precarity / Roman Rosenbaum -- Kirino Natsuo's Metabola, or the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the precarity of contemporary existence / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt -- Precarity, kawaii (cuteness), and their impact on environmental discourse in Japan / W. Puck Brecher -- Part-timer, buy a house : middle-class precarity, sentimentality and learning the meaning of work / Christopher Perkins -- Precarious attraction : Abe Kazushige's Individual projection post-Aum / Maria Roemer -- Hirabayashi Eiko and the projection of a viable proletarian vision / Mats Karlsson -- The precarious self : love, melancholia and the eradication of adolescence in Makoto Shinkai's anime works / Maria Grājdian -- Graphic representation of the precariat in popular culture / Roman Rosenbaum -- Towards a new literary trend : contemporary Japanese society mirrored in literature / Yasuko Claremont -- Cinematic narratives of precarity : gender and affect in contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij -- Precarity beyond 3/11 or "Living Fukushima" : power, politics, and space in Wagō Ryōichi's poetry of disaster / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt.

Call Number

JFE 16-8038

ISBN

• 9781138804739
• 1138804738

LCCN

• 2014023143
• 40024490439

OCLC

889941136

Title

Visions of precarity in Japanese popular culture and literature / edited by Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Roman Rosenbaum.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; [57]

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 57.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.

Added Author

Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina, editor.

Rosenbaum, Roman, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40024490439

Research Call Number

JFE 16-8038