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Japan Foundation, Sydney, LibraryNew items – for April 2010Series title: Chūkō bunko| 中 公 文 庫 |Publisher: Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1995.| 東 京 : 中 央 公 論 社 , 1995.|ISBN: 4-12-202466-8Physical desc: 395 p. ;16 cm. BookLanguage: Text in Japanese.Call NumberTitle:817.8 TOMNameraka nihongo kaiwa : chūkyū kara no kaiwa tekisuto / Tomisaka Yōko.|なめらか 日 本 語 会 話 : 中 級 からの 会 話 テキスト / 富 阪 容子 .|Edition: Shinsōban.| 新 装 版 .|Publisher: Tōkyō : Aruku, 2005.| 東 京 : アルク, 2005.|ISBN: 4-7574-0931-1Physical desc: 163 p. :ill. ;26 cm. + 1 sound disc (CD) (66min. : digital ; 4 3/4in.) BookLanguage: In Japanese ; preface and opening paragraph at head of each chapter in English.Call Number 910.26 ROGTitle:Tokyo stories : a literary stroll / translated from the Japanese and edited by Lawrence Rogers.Series title: Voice from Asia ;12Publisher: Balkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2002.ISBN:0-520-21786-1 (cloth : alk paper)Physical desc: xlviii, 267 p. :ill., map ;24 cm. BookLanguage: Translated into English from the Japanese.Call Number 910.268 NAKTitle:Out of the alleyway : Nakagami Kenji and the poetics of outcaste fiction / Eve Zimmerman.Series title: Harvard East Asian monographs ;290Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Harvard University Press [distributor], 2007.ISBN: 978-0-674-02603-2Physical desc: x, 263 p., [16] p. of plates :ill. ;24 cm. BookLanguage: Text in English.Summary: The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence andpoverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Drawing on the lives, experiences, and languages of the burakumin,the outcaste communities long discriminated against as a defiled underclass in Japanese society, Nakagami’s works of fiction andnonfiction record with vitality and violence the realities of buraku culture. In this critical study of Nakagami’s life and work, EveZimmerman delves into the writer’s literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami worked andexperimented. These chapters trace the biographical thread running through his works while foregrounding such diverse facets ofhis writing as his interest in the modern possibilities of traditional myths and forms of storytelling, his deployment of shockingtropes and images, and his crafting of a unique poetic language. There are sixteen pages of photographs in the centre of the book,depicting Nakagami and his family, scenes of Shingū, and Nakagami’s handwritten work. By bringing to the fore the literaryurgency and social engagement that informed all aspects of Nakagami’s creative and intellectual production, from his works ofprose and poetry to his criticism, this book argues for Nakagami to be appreciated as a distinctive and relevant voice in modernJapanese literature.Call Number 914.6 YORTitle: Nō no bōken / Yōrō Takeshi.| 脳 の 冒 険 / 養 老 孟 司 .|Series title: Chiteki ikikata bunko| 知 的 生 きかた 文 庫 |Publisher: Tōkyō : Mikasa Shobō, 2003.| 東 京 : 三 笠 書 房 , 2003.|ISBN: 4-8379-7361-2Physical desc: 218 cm. ;15 cm. BookLanguage: Text in Japanese.Call Number 916 KOMTitle: Kemuru geiei / Komamura Kichie.| 煙 る 鯨 影 / 駒 村 吉 重 .|Edition: Shohan.| 初 版 .|Publisher: Tōkyō : Shōgakukan, 2008.| 東 京 : 小 学 館 , 2008.|ISBN: 4-09-379781-1Physical desc: 261 p. :ill. ;20 cm. BookLanguage: Text in Japanese.11 30-Apr-10