Texts of the Heisei Era

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Texts of the Heisei Era is written by Lisette Gebhardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3112212940 (ISBN 10) and 9783112212943 (ISBN 13).

This volume with contributions on the literature of the Heisei era (1989-2019) contains analyses of contemporary Japanese literature. It presents authors such as Shimada Masahiko, Abe Kazushige, Tawada Yôko and Shôno Yoriko, who use sophisticated, self-reflective language and subversive arguments against systems of power to criticize the times in the context of the question of national identity and transculturality.