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Western Writers in Japan

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Sumie Okada

    1. Immaculate Heart University, Kagoshima, Japan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Pre-Blunden Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Preface

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 3-4

    3. Introduction

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 5-14

    4. Lafcadio Hearn: the first great literary emissary from the West

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 15-20

  3. Between the Wars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. William Plomer: East-West relationships

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 23-42

    3. William Empson: ‘unresolved conflicts’?

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 43-55

  4. Post-Second World War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. G S Fraser: a Westerner’s analysis of haiku

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 59-72

    3. James Kirkup and D J Enright: a humanitarian mission?

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 73-85

    4. Anthony Thwaite: two decades a generation apart

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 86-94

    5. Stephen Spender: a traveller through Japan

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 95-105

  5. Themes and Variations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Homosexuality and Japan

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 109-119

    3. Cultural Differences

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 120-144

    4. Natsume Soseki: Western individualism and the Japanese society

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 145-148

  6. Interviews and Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Iris Murdoch: her interest in Zen Buddhism

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 151-155

    3. Laurens Van der Post: the virtue of forgiveness

      • Sumie Okada
      Pages 156-163
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About this book

This book relates the experiences of a range of Western writers who went to Japan as teachers and lecturers, covering a period of over 100 years. It discusses East-West cultural differences; Western 'individualism' encountering Japanese 'formal' society; and draws on the author's interviews with many of the writers featured. It includes some hitherto unpublished correspondence, as well as comments on their published works. The author hopes her book will encourage a deeper understanding between East and West.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Immaculate Heart University, Kagoshima, Japan

    Sumie Okada

About the author

SUMIE OKADA is the author of Edmund Blunden and Japan, published by Macmillan in 1988, the Japanese version of which appeared in 1995. These books were widely and well reviewed in both England and Japan. She has taught at several universities in Japan, and lectured on Japanese culture in Cambridge, UK. Having studied at Oxford University as a Recognised Student under Professor John Bayley, and also under the late Professor Richard Ellmann, she received an M Litt degree from Cambridge University in 1985. She was also an Arthur Prowse Research Fellow at Durham University in 1991, and now teaches English literature and comparative culture at Immaculate Heart University in Kagoshima, Japan, while doing research based in Cambridge during vacations.

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