4: “Jugendgedenken” (Memories of Youth): The Impact of a Hermann Hesse Short Story in Japan over 70 Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword: Hermann Hesse: Going Global before Globalization viii
5. Introduction: Rethinking Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact 1
6. Part I Hesse’s Literary Impact
7. 1: Hermann Hesse’s Democratization of World Literature 21
8. 2: A World Literature of One’s Own: Hermann Hesse and the Digital Age 39
9. 3: Hermann Hesse in Cultural Memory: Intertextual Traces in American, Japanese, and German Literature 58
10. 4: “Jugendgedenken” (Memories of Youth): The Impact of a Hermann Hesse Short Story in Japan over 70 Years 80
11. 5: Hilda Rosner’s Labor of Love: How a Mysterious Outsider Extended Hesse’s Global Reach 96
12. Part II Hesse’s Cultural Impact
13. 6: Beneath the Wheel of Heteronormativity: Queer Representation in Hermann Hesse’s Unterm Rad 111
14. 7: The Intertextual Wings of Abraxas: Hermann Hesse Meets BTS, Korean Pop Music’s Most Influential Band 127
15. 8: Hermann Hesse’s Impact on Mainland China 144
16. 9: Contemporary Marathi “Versions” of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha— An “Indian Novel” in Translation 160
17. 10: Hesse on Film: Narziss und Goldmund (2020) in Context 178
18. Part III Hesse’s Philosophical Impact
19. 11: Hermann Hesse: Searching for an Ethos of Humanity 199
20. 12: On Hesse and Gardening 216
21. 13: Struggling with Technology: Hermann Hesse’s View on How to Live Well with Craft, Modern, and Cybernetic Technologies 229
22. 14: Your Own Personal Buddha: Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha: Depicting Constructivist Experiential Learning through Internal Focalization 243
23. 15: Depression and Therapy in Hermann Hesse’s Works 256
24. Conclusion: A Novel Approach to Understanding Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact through the Notion of Spiritual Capital 270
25. Select Bibliography 287
26. Contributors 292
27. Index 298