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Murakami Haruki's Short Fiction and the Japanese Consumer Society
dc.contributor.advisor | Gerbert, Elaine | |
dc.contributor.author | Clements, Jacob | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-16T20:47:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-16T20:47:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16621 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30078 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis seeks to describe the Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki’s continuing critique of Japan’s modern consumer-oriented society in his fiction. The first chapter provides a brief history of Japan’s consumer-oriented society, beginning with the Meiji Restoration and continuing to the 21st Century. A literature review of critical works on Murakami’s fiction, especially those on themes of identity and consumerism, makes up the second chapter. Finally, the third chapter introduces three of Murakami Haruki’s short stories. These short stories, though taken from three different periods of Murakami’s career, can be taken together to show a legacy of critiquing Japan’s consumer-oriented society. | |
dc.format.extent | 103 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Asian literature | |
dc.subject | Asian studies | |
dc.subject | Consumerism | |
dc.subject | Contemporary Japanese Literature | |
dc.subject | Identity | |
dc.subject | Japan | |
dc.subject | Murakami Haruki | |
dc.subject | Short Fiction | |
dc.title | Murakami Haruki's Short Fiction and the Japanese Consumer Society | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Childs, Margaret | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Mizumura, Ayako | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | East Asian Languages & Cultures | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
dc.identifier.orcid | ||
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |