{"product_id":"living-the-somehow-life-tanaka-yasuo-banana-yoshimoto-and-postmodern-japan-9783836427500","title":"Living the \"Somehow Life\"-Tanaka Yasuo, Banana Yoshimoto and Postmodern Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Tillack\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanaka Yasuo's Nantonaku, kurisutaru (Somehow, Crystal, 1980) and Yoshimoto Banana's Kitchin (Kitchen, 1987) have been denigrated as em-ble-matic of a so-called \"bastardized line\" of Japanese literature, characterized by an un-abashed celebration of a \"late-capitalist\" consumerist ethos. Close rea-dings of these works are undertaken in order to demonstrate that, while these works are reflective of late-capitalist postmodern Japan (the de-ve-lop-ment of which is delineated prior to the readings), they nonetheless posit uniquely post-modern strategies for critically engaging issues of identity for-ma-tion and main-tenance, and the creation of meaning as they appear in the con-temporary Japanese socio-cultural nexus. I argue that if such strategies are not immedi-ately apparent, it is because they hold to what critic Fredric Jameson, in his dis-cussion of the requisites for a \"new political art,\" calls \"the truth of postmo-dernism.\" This work will interest those concerned with postwar and contemporary Japa-nese culture, society and literature, as well as those engaged in the study of \"global culture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47585605779607,"sku":"9783836427500","price":4538.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783836427500.webp?v=1774961017","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/living-the-somehow-life-tanaka-yasuo-banana-yoshimoto-and-postmodern-japan-9783836427500","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}