Overview
- Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors invites new and seasoned readers of the author to rethink not only Murakami’s work but also the place of his writing in the classroom
- Reading and teaching the works of Haruki Murakami can be challenging, and Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors offers readers opportunities for meeting those challenges
- Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors investigates how reading, teaching, and studying Murakami serves well the goal of rethinking this world
Part of the book series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre (LITE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
One of Murakami’s central and enduring themes is a persistent warning not to suppress our fundamental desires in favor of the demands of society at large. Murakami’s writing over his career reveals numerous recurring motifs, but his message has also evolved, creating a catalogue of works that reveals Murakami to be a challenging author. Many of those challenges lie in Murakami’s blurring of genre as well as his rich blending of Japanese and Western mythologies and styles—all while continuing to offer narratives that attract and captivate a wide range of readers. Murakami is, as Ōe Kenzaburō once contended, not a “Japanese writer” so much as a global one, and as such, he merits a central place in the classroom in order to confront readers and students, but to be challenged as well.
Reading, teaching, and studying Murakami serves well the goal of rethinking this world. It will open new lines of inquiry into what constitutes national literatures, and how some authors, in the era of blurred national and cultural boundaries, seek now to transcend those boundaries and pursue a truly global mode of expression.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Haruki Murakami
Book Subtitle: Challenging Authors
Editors: Matthew C. Strecher, Paul L. Thomas
Series Title: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-462-6
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-462-6Published: 22 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Topics: Education, general