Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki

The research provides an alternative insight to how Tokyo urbanites identify with Japanese society as a whole given the changes brought by modernization, consumerism and other western concepts or ideas like the American way of life. The study by using the novels of Murakami Haruki debunks some image...

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Main Author: Primavera, Shalimar Austria
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_masteral-102252021-04-15T11:32:51Z Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki Primavera, Shalimar Austria The research provides an alternative insight to how Tokyo urbanites identify with Japanese society as a whole given the changes brought by modernization, consumerism and other western concepts or ideas like the American way of life. The study by using the novels of Murakami Haruki debunks some images of Japan as a homogenous and egalitarian society and instead offers a theory on a kind of emerging Japanese individualism, where self-cultivation is the center of ones identity. 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3387 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10225/viewcontent/2006_Primavera_Shalimar_Partial.pdf Master's Theses English Animo Repository
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description The research provides an alternative insight to how Tokyo urbanites identify with Japanese society as a whole given the changes brought by modernization, consumerism and other western concepts or ideas like the American way of life. The study by using the novels of Murakami Haruki debunks some images of Japan as a homogenous and egalitarian society and instead offers a theory on a kind of emerging Japanese individualism, where self-cultivation is the center of ones identity.
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author Primavera, Shalimar Austria
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Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
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title Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
title_short Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
title_full Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
title_fullStr Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
title_full_unstemmed Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki
title_sort individualism and identity in contemporary japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of murakami haruki
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