Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. War Memory and the Emperor: Late-Work Poetry by Wakamatsu Jōtarō (1935–2021) 1
5. Japanese “Masochism” in the Literature of Shimada Masahiko 25
6. The Challenges of Rībi Hideo’s Border-Crossing Writing: The “Alley” (roji) in China 47
7. Dissecting Social Malaise in Literature: Abe Kazushige’s Textual Interplay with the Heisei Era 69
8. Shōno Yoriko: Literature as a Battlefield 97
9. The State as the Enemy: Kurokawa Sō’s Iwaba no ue kara – Subversive Citizens in the Post-Fukushima mirai shōsetsu and the Japanese Political Entertainment Literature 117
10. About the Contributors
11. Name Index 145
12. Subject Index 147