Border-Crossing Japanese Literature

Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia.

This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan.

Part I Longing for Distant Borders to Cross 1 Only Yesterday: The Queerness of Cross-Temporal Identification in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo 2 Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kaf¿'s Amerika monogatari 3 Flights Across Inner Borders: Japanese Picture Book Retellings of Ainu Owl Stories Part II Oscillation, Borders and It¿ Hiromi 4 The Poetics of Border-Crossing: A Case Study of It¿ Hiromi from the 1990s to the Present 5 The Practice of 'Trans': Observations on It¿ Hiromi's Novel Togenuki - The Thorn-Puller 6 Border-Crossing Food and Humour in It¿ Hiromi's Prose and Poetry Part III Borders Crossed outside Japan 7 Crossing Borders of Culture and Language: Historical Fiction Depicting Japanese Internment in Australia 8 Sydney!: Murakami Haruki's Olympic Border Cross 9 Border-Crossing in the Collective Trauma Narratives of Murakami Haruki and Tawada Y¿ko 10 The Gaze of the Girl Displaced across Borders: Tawada Y¿ko's Tabi o suru hadaka no me