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Japanese Writers and the West

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  • © 2003

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  1. Sumie Okada
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 1-8

  3. ‘Failed Individualism’ Observed in Japan: the Novels of Soseki Natsume (1867–1916)

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 9-29

  4. The Visit by Hiroshi Yosano (1873–1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) to France and England in 1912

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 31-49

  5. Yukio Mishima (1925–70): His Love of Idiosyncracy and of ‘Failed Groupism’, in Parallel with His Romantic Escape into the Freedom of the Sea, Observed in his Work The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji)

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 51-60

  6. Traces of a Different Sort of ‘Groupism’ in Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 61-73

  7. Shusaku Endo (1923–96): His Japanese Context and Its Importance in the Analysis of His Relationship with Francoise Pastre (1930–71)

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 75-108

  8. Geneviève Pastre’s Article about Her Sister, Francoise

    • Sumie Okada
    Pages 109-132

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 133-216
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About this book

This book concludes Sumie Okada's trilogy concerning cultural relationships between Japan and the West. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group-consciousness and western individualism. It also covers Endo's student days in Lyon, and his relationship with the humanist Françoise Pastre, appending a moving account by her sister Geneviève.

About the author

SUMIE OKADA is the author of Edmund Blunden and Japan (published in 1988, the Japanese version of which appeared in 1995) and Western Writers in Japan (1999). 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 Ellman, she received an MLit degree from Cambridge University in 1985. She was also an Arthur Prowse Research Fellow at Durham University in 1991, and is now Professor of English at the Immaculate Heart University in Kagoshima, Japan, while doing research based in Cambridge during vacations.

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