A re-exploration of the Japanese identity in the postmodern context via Haruki Murakami’s novels

• Main Author: Aw, Si Ying
• Other Authors: Lee Hyung Jung
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Japanese
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63239
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay, I will engage in a close reading of Murakami’s novel, Kafka On The Shore, and alongside references to his other novels such as Norwegian Wood and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, I will analyze how Murakami writes in relation to the postwar climate. Murakami’s novels are made more complex...