Japanese literature, or "J-Literature," in the 1990s.

World Literature Today | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

THE 1990s ENDED JUST THREE YEARS AGO, yet as I gather my thoughts on Japanese literature in the 1990s, I feel if I am writing about the remote past. Japanese postwar literature, as with literature elsewhere, continues to lose its readership under the pressure of multiple media--film, television, and comic books--even though some writers in the 1980s successfully established a class of commodified "pure" literature. To refer to Japanese literature of the 1990s, the editorial staff of Kawade Shobo's literary journal Bungei, hoping to attract a young readership, created the ...

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