Modern Japanese Writers - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0684805987 ISBN 13: 9780684805986

Publisher: Charles Scribners & Sons, 2000

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The latest addition to the Scribner Writers Series is the first volume in the series to concentrate on Asian literature. This handbook is a collection of alphabetically arranged articles on 23 twentieth-century Japanese writers and one literary genre, written by noted scholars in the field.

Entries are generally around 18 pages in length. Each author entry treats a writer's life and work and is accompanied by a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Most of the writers included have been translated into English, and two of them, Kawabata Yasunari and Oe Kenzaburo, are Nobel Prize winners. One of the most interesting articles is the one on "Atomic Bomb Writers," a survey of the literary genre that represents Japanese writers' responses to the effects and aftereffects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

As high-school and college literature curricula expand to cover more writers outside the traditional Western canon, this will be a valuable resource in collections supporting those programs. Libraries owning Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II and Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945 (both 1997), from Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography series, will find that the Scribner volume adds only five writers. However, the Scribner reference lists are more extensive, and the essays are generally different enough to warrant purchase. RBB
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