The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity by Susan J. Napier

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity

Susan J. Napier

272 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction mysterious reflective medium-paced
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Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth c...

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