Wasafiri Issue 102


Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering 

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Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory

Interview Mieko Kawakami

Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko’s Princess Saho; Unruly Subjects in 'Walking a Street Named Peace' and Tokyo Ueno Station; Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations

Art Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In this Corner of the World and Popular History, The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs

Fiction Hideo Furukawa, Minako Ōba

Poetry Mimi Hachikai, Tamiki Hara, Hiromi Itō, Naha Kanie, Mieko Kawakami, Martha Nakamura, Sayaka Ōsaki, Ryōichi Wagō

Life-writing Kumiko Kakehashi, Susan Southard

Review Essay The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction

Reviews Osamu Dazai, A Shameful Life; Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are; Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

and more...

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