Acknowledgments

Introduction

Stephen Snyder

Philip Gabriel

Oe Kenzaburo and the Search for the Sublime at the End of the Twentieth Century

Susan J. Napier

The Road to the River: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku

Van C. Gessel

Temporal Discontinuity in the Atomic Bomb Fiction of Hayashi Kyoko

Davinder L. Bhowmik

Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Minako

Adrienne Hurley

Double Vision: Divided Narrative Focus in Takahashi Takako's Yosoi Seyo, Waga Tamashii Yo

Mark Williams

In the Trap of Words: Nakagami Kenji and the Making of Degenerate Fictions

Eve Zimmerman

(Re)canonizing Kurahashi Yumiko: Toward Alternative Perspectives for ``Modern'' ``Japanese'' ``Literature''

Atsuko Sakaki

Murakami Haruki's Two Poor Aunts Tell Everything They Know About Sheep, Wells, Unicorns, Proust, Elephants, and Magpies

Jay Rubin

Extreme Imagination: The Fiction of Murakami Ryu

Stephen Snyder

Dream Messengers, Rental Children, and the Infantile: Shimada Masahiko and the Possibilities of the Postmodern

Philip Gabriel

Arguing with the Real: Kanai Mieko

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Japanese without Apology: Yoshimoto Banana and Healing

Ann Sherif

Contributors

Index