Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index
Introduction - Stephen Snyder, Philip Gabriel -- - Oe Kenzaburo and the Search for the Sublime at the End of the Twentieth Century - Susan J. Napier -- - The Road to the River: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku - Van C. Gessel -- - Temporal Discontinuity in the Atomic Bomb Fiction of Hayashi Kyoko - Davinder L. Bhowmik -- - Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Minako - Adrienne Hurley -- - Double Vision: Divided Narrative Focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosoi 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 Ryu - 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