Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, A note on the text, 1 Introduction, 2 Woman found: encounters with supernatural women in prewar Japanese fantasy, 3 Woman lost: the dead, damaged, or absent female in postwar fantasy, 4 Desert of mirrors: the construction of the alien in modern Japanese fantasy, 5 Logic of inversion: twentieth-century Japanese Utopias, 6 The dystopian imagination: from the asylum through the labyrinth to the end of the world, 7 Conclusion: is there a “Japanese” fantastic?, Bibliography, Biographical reference, Index
Susan Napier
"Napier must surely be one of the most widely-read scholars in the
field of modern Japanese literature, and she cogently weaves
together textual elements from works...seemingly unrelated....
Napier's writing is, as always, compact and sophisticated without
being at all ponderous. Her active disregard for boundaries between
so-called high- and pop-culture forms is refreshing and
exhilerating.... Finally, this book is a major contribution to
modern literary and cultural studies in its attention to the
alternative, subversive visions of society constituted by the
"fantastic..""
-"Journal of Asian Studies
"By adopting a cultural studies approach, she succeeds in probiding
the general public as well as Japan specialists with a work that
discusses the fantastic worlds in Japanese literature....
remarkable for time and effort alone that must have gone into the
preliminary research, not to mention the final product."
-"Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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