- The book includes Kato Norihiro's final work on Murakami; Kato is often called Japan's 'last public intellectual', and his chapter here is one of his few works ever translated into English
- The book includes discussions by Murakami translators, Jay Rubin and Ted Goossen, as well as his English editor, Elmer Luke, shedding light not only on Murakami's work as literature but also as a product of cross-cultural communication
- The book includes an interview with Murakami Haruki himself by Rebecca Suter
- The book includes contributions by some of the most prominent Murakami scholars including Matthew Strecher
Gitte Marianne Hansen is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. An AHRC Leadership Fellow, she is PI for the project 'Gendering Murakami Haruki: Characters, Transmedial Productions and Contemporary Japan' and the author of Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating Contradiction in Narrative and Visual Culture (2016).
Michael Tsang is due to take up lectureship in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in world/postcolonial literatures and media with an East Asian focus. He has published in Japan Forum, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Wasafiri, and others, and is the founding editor of Hong Kong Studies.
Title: Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage
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ISBN: 9780367181413
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-08-20
Number of Pages: 308
Weight: 0.4901 kg
