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

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I N D E X Aborigines, 191–192, 195 Ackroyd, Peter, 183–184 aesthetics: of Arishima Takeo, 134; decadence in Japanese literature and, 98–99; the interpretation of literature and, 74–75, 181; Japanese Naturalism and, 92, 96; Orientalism and, 114; of Sigmund Freud, 201; of Tanizaki Jun’ichirö, 119; Tsubouchi Shöyö on, 15, 32; Yosano Akiko’s poetry and, 49, 84 Akiko, Baba, 56, 88–90 alien (the): Arishima Takeo and, 126–128; Izumi Kyöka and, 112; as literary subject, 201–202; meaning of, 1–9; motherhood and, 73–74; Okinawa as, 140–141, 157, 177; Öshiro Tatsuhirö and, 204–205; Shakespeare as, 11–12, 19; Tanizaki Jun’ichirö and, 119, 124–125; translation and, 16–20, 27, 32–33, 42; Yosano Akiko’s naturalization of, 44, 60, 72; in Yosano Akiko’s poetry, 84, 92, 94–96 alterity, 12, 18, 20 Amaterasu Ömikami, 151, 172 America, 119; Murakami Haruki and, 184–186, 188, 194, 197; Okinawa and, 7, 141–142, 149, 158, 162; Öshirö Tatsuhiro and, 142, 149 anti-Naturalist, 107, 127 Apter, Emily, 42 Araragi, 93–94 Arishima Takeo: Aru onna (A certain woman), 128, 131; “Gasu” (Fog), 136–138; Ishi ni hishigareta zassö (The weed crushed by the stone), 131, 136; Jikkenshitsu (The laboratory ), 131, 136, 223n.27; Kain no matsuei (Descendant of Cain), 128, 138; Kankan mushi (Rust-chippers), 132–134, 136; “Un-Japanese style” and, 127–129. See also aesthetics; alien (the); death; demons; exotic (the); gothic; melodrama; realism; Romanticism; self (the) Art Nouveau, 56, 67–68 Aston, W. G., 47 Atlanta, 179, 188 Atsuko Sakaki, 4, 182 Australia, 8, 179, 184, 187, 189–200, 205. See also Murakami Haruki Ayame Dayü, 119–125 bakemono. See monsters Benjamin, Walter, 13 252 • Index Bhabha, Homi, 12–14, 167 Blacker, Carmen, 164–165, 172 Blainey, Geoffrey, 194 Bloom, Harold, 49, 54, 59–61, 71–72, 159, 168 Booth, Wayne, 74–76, 151, 180, 189, 205 Brontë, Emily, 105 Brooks, Peter: and melodramatic excess, 105, 127, 134–136, 204; and The Melodramatic Imagination, 100–101, 130–132, 138–139 Buddhism, 143, 153, 160, 168, 173, 184 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 11 Bushidö, 81 Capote, Truman, 185 Carey, Peter, 184, 193 Carver, Raymond, 185 Chambers, Anthony, 119 Chatwin, Bruce, 184 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 23, 28, 37 Christianity, 2, 51, 55–56, 88, 98–99, 132, 143, 182 colonialism, 13, 164, 202, 205. See also Öshirö Tatsuhiro death: in Izumi Kyöka’s prose, 101, 104–105; as a theme in Arishima Takeo’s prose, 136–137; in Yosano Akiko’s poetry, 68, 86, 89–90, 92 demons, 7, 127, 159; Arishima Takeo and, 136–137; Izumi Kyöka and, 100, 104, 106, 112; Yosano Akiko and, 74, 81, 84, 88, 95–96, 98 doppelganger, 123, 125 Dreiser, Theodore, 129 Eco, Umberto, 187 Edo, 10, 22, 25, 27, 45, 105, 114, 126 Edogawa Rampo, 99 Eliot, T. S., 44–45, 49, 59–60, 71, 155 emperor, 33, 78, 81, 85, 172 exotic (the), 2, 4, 6–7, 33, 51, 66, 99, 179, 184–185; Arishima Takeo and, 126, 128, 132–133; as literary subject, 4–6, 8–9, 201–202, 205; meaning of, 2, 4–9; in Murakami Haruki, 187, 189, 196–200; Okinawa as, 8, 141, 154, 157, 177; Öshiro Tatsuhiro and, 204–205; in Shakespeare, 12, 17, 20, 25; in Shimazaki Töson, 51; Tanizaki Jun’ichirö and, 114, 116, 119; in Tsubouchi Shöyö’s translations, 17, 25, 27; in Yosano Akiko’s poetry, 84, 92, 94–96 expressionism, 124, 138 Fanon, Frantz, 167 fantasy, 4, 51, 59, 61, 126, 130, 135–136, 138, 159; gothic and, 97–98; Izumi Kyöka and, 100, 102–106 Faust, 123 feminism, 77, 124–125; Yosano Akiko and, 84, 203 fin-de-siècle: art and, 67–68, 98–99; literature and, 99, 113, 118–119 Freeman, Cathy, 189, 193–196, 198–199 Freud, Sigmund, 68, 124, 195; “Das Unheimlich” (The uncanny) and, 102, 104, 124, 159, 176, 201 Fujita Mokichi, 28 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 18, 41 genbun itchi (colloquial style), 25, 127, 203 Genji Monogatari (The tale of Genji), 69, 129 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 47 Gorky, Maxim, 133–134 gothic: Arishima Takeo and, 126–127, 131, 136–139; Izumi Kyöka and, Index • 253 100–106, 112–113, 125, 138; notion of, 4, 6–7, 97–101, 126, 130, 138; Tanizaki Jun’ichirö and, 113–116, 118–119, 121–123, 124–125. See also fantasy...