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Index
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” denote endnotes.
absolute conformity 14
absolute despair 28
absolute resistance 13–14
aestheticisation of language 108, 112, 119, 138
Aibiki 115
Air Chrysalis (kūki sanagi) 158
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke 41, 74, 118–19, 158
alienating effects 107, 114, 121, 123–6
All God’s Children Can Dance (Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru, 2000) 75, 146n6, 160
“America” 38–41
“Americanness” 110
“America to watashi” (“America and I”) 117
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) 137–8, 142, 147n10
Annie Baby 14
anthropology 19
Anton Chekhov 155
“arbitrary centre” 39
Asahara Shōkō 3–4, 20–3, 26, 31, 78, 113, 154, 156, 157, 159, 160
Aum shinrikyo 3, 4, 9, 20–3, 24n2, 26, 31, 75, 78, 79, 133, 154–7, 159–60, 164
baby boomer generation 8, 13
Bassnett, Susan 126
The Beatles 47, 49, 132
Birnbaum, Alfred 147n8
Blade Runner 108
boku novels 9–11, 29–32, 34, 59, 146n6
“Boy named Crow” 76–7
Brautigan, Richard 12
Brecht, Bertolt 123
Bunkateki mushūsei (culturelessness) 109
capitalism 14
Carver, Raymond 12, 127, 128, 146n4
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) 127–31, 143
“cat flap” 132–7
“catharsis” 68
Chandler, Raymond 39–40
Chichi ga kieta (My Father Vanished) 41
Chozick, Matthew 109
Cold War system 3, 26, 157
“collective battle” 8, 13, 14
“collective spirit” 8, 9, 27, 161
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to kareno junrei no toshi, 2013) 6, 161
confused (konran) 47, 49–50, 68–70, 71n2
cross-cultural effects 4, 5, 39–41, 107–8, 113, 114, 119, 132, 136, 137, 142, 144, 145, 164
cultural negotiation 22–3
“cultural odourlessness” 108–10
cultureless (mukokuseki) 113
Dance Dance Dance (Dansu Danssu Dansu, 1988) 44, 103
defamiliarisation 1, 19, 46, 108, 119–25, 133, 136
“deformity” (yugami) 61, 62
Dejima 134–7, 141
Devereaux, Elizabeth 109
Dillon, Sarah 135
disability 97–100
Distant Drums (Tōi taiko, 1990) 44, 46, 69, 105n7, 117
Dutch East India Company (VOC) 134
Ebisuno 19, 158
Eichmann, Adolf 17, 85, 87
The Elephant Vanishes 125
Eliot, T. S. 87
Endō Shinji 68
engagement 6, 13, 32, 42, 88
estrangement effect 39, 123, 124, 164n1
Etō Jun 117–18
“explaining” (setsumei) 30–1
“A Family Supper” (1990) 139
fantastical mode 75
“Father” and “You” 142–4
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott 12, 32, 40, 115–17, 127
“floating world” 142
Fujii Shōzō 14
Fukada Tamotsu 155–8
“Fuka-Eri” 122–5, 146n5, 158
Fukuda Kazuya 60, 158, 159
Fukushima nuclear power plant 160–4
Futabatei Shimei 114–15, 145–6n2
Gabriel, Philip 46, 105n9, 124–5
genbun-itchi 115
Ghostwritten (1999) 132
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) 127
Gunzō 113, 115
“Haguruma” (“Spinning Gears”) 119
hanasu (speak) 27
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando, 1985) 82, 104n2, 146n6, 155, 159
Haruki o meguru bōken: Sekai wa Murakami Haruki o dō yomuka (A Wild Haruki Chase: How is the World Reading Murakami Haruki, 2006a) 109
Hasumi Shigehiko 11
Hayashi Keisuke 127
Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no uta o kike, 1979) 1, 27–9, 31–4, 40, 48, 110, 146n3
Heike monogatari 113
hiragana 121–3
Holm, Mette 125
hon’an/hon’anmono (adaptation) 115
Hon’yaku kyōshitsu (Translation Class) 130
Hon’yaku yawa 2: Sarinjā senki (A Night Conversation on Translation 2: Commentaries on Salinger, 2003) 129
“a hundred per cent” 61–2, 65
hypermasculine aspect 108
Ichikawa Makoto 41
idealism 116
Iguchi Tokio 33, 34
“illusion of absence” 141
imagination: metaphor and 83–7
and responsibility 86
Imai Kiyoto 40–1
“imperfect” 61
I-novel 9–12, 33, 42, 48, 49, 70, 74, 118
Irving, John 12–13, 116, 127
Iser, Wolfgang 37–8
Ishiguro, Kazuo 108, 132, 137–45, 147n9, 147n10
Ishihara Chiaki 28
Iwabuchi Kōichi 108, 109
Iwamiya Keiko 16, 92
Japan 69, 70, 74–6, 109–13, 132–42, 164
critics 11–12
and culture 107–8
concentric circles 40–1
economic growth and modernisation 108
language 146n5
literary criticism 17
literary tradition 9, 11–13, 16, 70, 113, 116
national literature 126
realism 113
social changes in 69
translations 145n2
Japaneseness 108, 109, 111, 112, 132, 134, 139, 142
Johnnie Walker (Kafka on the Shore) 17, 99–102, 155
A Journey to Sakhalin (Anton Chekhov) 155
junbungaku (pure literature) 10–11, 116
“Junsui shōsetsu ron” (“On Pure Literature”) 116
Kafka on the Shore (Umibe no Kafuka, 2002) 6, 16, 17, 76–8, 82, 84, 87–94, 103, 104, 104n2, 110, 122, 130, 131, 155, 159
kanashii (sad, sorrowful) 49, 64, 71n1, 71n2
Karatani Kōjin 11, 114, 145n1
katakana 96–7, 105n9, 110, 120–3, 129, 146–7n7, 147n10, 164n1
Katō Kōichi 54
Katō Norihiro 110
Katō Shūichi 126
Kawabata Yasunari 108, 111, 118, 138
Kawai Hayao 14–15, 76, 77, 157
Kawamoto Saburō 8–9
Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing, 1979) 1, 27
“Kigō to shite no Amerika” (“America as A Sign”) 38
Killing Commendatore (Kishidanchō goroshi, 2017) 6, 161, 162
Kim Choon-Mie 14
kimi 82, 128–32, 143
Kojima Nobuo 74
Komori Yōichi 16–17, 93–4
konran (confusion, disorder) 47, 49–50, 68–70, 71n2
Koten shinyaku (New Translation Classics) 126–7
Kunikida Doppo 114, 115
Kyacchā in za rai 129, 130, 131
Lady Rokujō (The Tale of Genji) 86, 93, 94, 102
language: cultures and 40, 41, 112, 141
defamiliarising 119–25
failure 94
and Murakami 16
translation 127, 129
“translationese” 13
uncertainty about 27–33
“The Last Lawn of the Afternoon” (“Gogo no saigo no shibafu”) 26, 34, 37
Levy, Indra 126
lonely (sabishii) 64
loss and lack 79–82, 101
Loughman, Celeste 110
love triangles 59, 60
“low entry level” (shikii no hikui) 11–13, 23
McInerney, Jay 109
Maruyama Masao 126
Maruya Saiichi 1, 113
Mauss, Marcel 34
mediator 57–62, 70, 125, 128, 141
Meguriai 115
Meiji writers 10, 41, 107, 114, 116, 126, 132
memory: and monogatari 47, 56–7
and responsibility 67–8
metaphor 5, 6, 16, 30, 37, 47, 52, 76, 78–9, 97, 100, 103, 104, 104n4, 104n5, 116, 141, 142, 164
child experience 93–6
dynamics of 84
function of 95
and imagination 83–7
mothers experience 87–93
Millhauser, Steven 132
Mishima Yukio 109, 111, 112
Mitchell, David 108, 132–7, 140, 141, 144, 145
Miura Masashi 127
Miyoshi, Masao 112
monogatari (narrative) 1, 3–7, 13, 20, 21, 26, 27, 33, 41, 42, 84, 95–6, 154, 158–60, 162–4
as cultural negotiation 22–3
and distancing 18–19
function of 14–17, 70, 104, 108, 113, 118, 145
“good” power of 21, 23, 26
memory and 47, 48, 56, 57, 67, 70
role of 9
Mori Ōgai 118
Morley, David 108
Mugibatake de tsukamaete (Catch Me in the Rye Field) 129
“multiperspectivism” 135
“Murakami Children” 132
Murakami Fuminobu 51
Murakami Haruki 1–7, 23n1, 104n2, 104n5, 105n6, 105n8, 109, 110, 113–19, 127, 133, 146n4, 154, 155
commonality 115
complicity 108, 125–8
criticism 11–12
employment 41
Irvings influence on 13
language experiments 119–25
tolerance 125
Murakami Haruki hon’yaku raiburarī (Murakami Haruki Translation Library) 127
“Murakami Haruki no ‘fūkei’” (“The Landscape of Murakami Haruki,” 1995) 114
“Murakami Haruki phenomenon” 2, 3, 5
“Murakami’s Children” 14
Nakamura Mitsuo 10
Naoko: Midori and 62–5
symptoms 50–7
Napier, Susan 41
“narrate” (kataru) 31
narrative 20–2
as engaging 33–8
function of 16, 164
level 13–18
manipulation 55
stable 4
technique 49
weight of 55, 56
Natsume Sōseki 17, 118, 155
Neuromancer 108
“Nezumi trilogy” 27–33
“Nihonjinron: Made in the USA” (Revell) 108–9
non-communicative writing 13
Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori, 1987) 2, 6, 44–50, 57, 59, 60, 67–70, 71n3, 71n5, 74, 93, 132, 133, 147n7
Nozaki Takashi 129
Numano Mitsuyoshi 124, 126–7, 131
number9dream (2001) 132–4
Obara Makiko 66
Ōe, Kenzaburō 10–11, 114
1Q84 (2009–10) 6, 17, 19, 120, 122, 154, 155, 158, 159, 164
Orientalism (Said) 22–3
“Orientalism and the Study of Japan” (Minear) 108, 134
Orientalists 114, 138
Ōshima 76, 80, 81, 84–8, 92, 93, 95, 104n3
Otsuji Katsuhiko 41
Ōtsuka Eiji 11, 17, 40, 96–9, 110
A Pale View of Hills (1982) 137–8, 147n9, 147n10
permeability of English 144–5
phenomenal popularity 2
“pilgrimage” 161
Pinball, 1973 (1973-nen no Pinbōru, 1980) 26, 29–30, 41
The Place That Was Promised 3
postmodernity 17
“powerful metaphor” 141
Powers, Richard 132
Princeton University 5, 74, 117
prolificacy 5, 126
psychological tone 50
psychotherapy 15, 16, 129
publicity 2, 70, 110
pure literature 10, 13, 116
“Quiet” (shizukana) 68
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories (2006b) 118
“Rēdāhōsen” (“Lederhosen”) 125
Rībi Hideo (Hideo Levy) 111–12
“reader-friendliness” 126–7
reality 1, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 49, 62, 88, 92, 100, 113, 134, 162–4
reciprocal communication 66
relationship 26, 30, 35, 37, 38, 44, 46, 48, 50–2, 54–65, 67–70, 75, 76, 78–80, 83, 86, 88, 92, 93, 95, 96, 104, 113, 114, 117, 119, 127–30, 132, 135–7, 142, 156, 159, 161, 162
relativisation 18, 19, 23n1, 26, 95, 96, 108, 112, 113, 119, 145
“remaining work” 9, 26
The Remains of the Day (1989) 140, 141, 143
Remote Region, Close Region (Henkyō kinkyō, 1998) 46, 103
rengōsekigun (United Red Army) 155
“The replacement of analogies” 87
“responsibility” 63
“return to Japan” (Nihon kaiki) phenomenon 118
“revolution” (kakumei) 9
Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith 55
rimōto kontorōrā (remote controller) 121
Robins, Kevin 108
Rubin, Jay 10, 33, 67, 71n2, 118, 124–5, 131, 144
“ruined” (sokonau) 79
sabishii (lonely, isolated) 49, 64, 71n1
Saeki 76, 80, 82, 83, 85–8, 90–6, 99, 100, 102–4
Said, Edward 22–3
Saitō Tamaki 104n4
Sakai Hideyuki 35, 36
sake 66, 110
Sakigake 155–9
Salinger, J. D. 127, 128
“sandstorm” 78–9, 83, 86
secondary vocabulary 12, 27
Second World War 3, 10, 17, 46, 78, 80, 85, 96, 162
self-imposed isolation 84
Self-Orientalists 114