The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature

Contents

C O N T E N T S Preface • vii Introduction • 1 1. Translating the Alien • 10 Tsubouchi Shöyö and Shakespeare 2. Naturalizing the Alien • 43 Yosano Akiko’s Revolution in Verse 3. The Demon Within • 73 Yosano Akiko and Motherhood 4. The Gothic Novel • 97 Izumi Kyöka and Tanizaki Jun’ichirö 5. Gothic Stylistics • 126 Arishima Takeo and Melodramatic Excess 6. Female Shamans • 140 Öshiro Tatsuhiro and Yuta 7. History/Fiction/Identity • 155 Öshiro Tatsuhiro and the Uncanny 8. The Alien Without • 178 Murakami Haruki and the Sydney Olympics Epilogue • 201 Notes • 207 Bibliography • 231 Index • 251 ...