Routledge handbook of modern Japanese literature / edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Literature, space and time. Space and time in modern Japanese literature / Stephen Dodd -- Literature short on time: modern moments in haiku and tanka / Jon Holt -- Kawabata Yasunari's The scarlet gang of Asakusa and Tokyo space / Alisa Freedman -- Inner pieces: isolation, inclusion, and interiority in modern women's fiction / Amanda C. Seaman -- Gender and sexuality. Queer reading and modern Japanese literature / J. Keith Vincent -- Feminism and Japanese literature / Barbara Hartley -- Nagai Kafu's feminist perspective / Rachael Hutchinson -- Literature and politics. The proletarian literature movement: experiment and experience / Mats Karlsson -- Writing and politics: Japanese literature and the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) / Leith Morton -- Expedient conversion? tenko in trans-war Japanese literature / Mark Williams -- Reading unequal Japan-U.S. relations in postwar Japanese fiction / Kota Inoue -- Writing war memory. Critical postwar war literature: trauma, narrative memory and responsible history / David Stahl -- Writing and remembering the Battle of Okinawa: war memory and literature / Kyle Ikeda -- The need to narrate the Tokyo air raids: the literature of Saotome Katsumoto / Justin Aukema --- National and colonial identities. Abusive medicine and continued culpability: the Japanese empire and its aftermaths in East Asian literatures / Karen Thornber -- National literature and beyond: Mizumura Minae and Hideo Levy / Angela Yiu -- Listening in: the languages of the body in Kim Chang-Saeng's Crimson fruit / Catherine Ryu -- Bunjin and the bundan. Kuki Shuzo as philosopher-poet / Hiroshi Nara -- The Akutagawa/Tanizaki debate: reflections on bundan discourse / Rebecca Mak -- The rise of women writers, the heisei i-novel, and the contemporary bundan / Kendall Heitzman -- Literature and technology. Electronic literature and youth culture: the rise of the Japanese cell phone novel / Kelly Hansen -- Narrative in the digital age: from light novels to web serials / Satomi Saito -- Japanese twitterature: global media, formal innovation, cultural différance / Jonathan E. Abel.