Border-Crossing Japanese Literature : Reading Multiplicity (Paperback)

Part I  Longing for Distant Borders to Cross  1 Only Yesterday: The Queerness of Cross-Temporal Identification in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo  2 Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kaf?’s Amerika monogatari  3 Flights Across Inner Borders: Japanese Picture Book Retellings of Ainu Owl Stories  Part II  Oscillation, Borders and It? Hiromi  4 The Poetics of Border-Crossing: A Case Study of It? Hiromi from the 1990s to the Present  5 The Practice of ‘Trans’: Observations on It? Hiromi’s Novel Togenuki ? The Thorn-Puller  6 Border-Crossing Food and Humour in It? Hiromi’s Prose and Poetry  Part III  Borders Crossed outside Japan  7 Crossing Borders of Culture and Language: Historical Fiction Depicting Japanese Internment in Australia  8 Sydney!: Murakami Haruki’s Olympic Border Cross  9 Border-Crossing in the Collective Trauma Narratives of Murakami Haruki and Tawada Y?ko  10 The Gaze of the Girl Displaced across Borders: Tawada Y?ko’s Tabi o suru hadaka no me